Re:S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge f...
by nsoxo on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:35AM
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Netflix is pushing data AND you are pulling it.
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Re:S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge f...
by jiggawatts on Friday October 01, 2021 @08:17AM
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No, they are not "pushing" data.
Pushing implies that data is sent by the server without clients explicitly requesting it.
Pulling is when the client requests data explicitly.
I get notifications pushed to my phone by Apple.
I pull YouTube videos.
YouTube doesn't suddenly decide to "push" random videos to my phone in the middle of the night.
Similarly, Netflix doesn't "push" videos to their customers.
Re:S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge f...
by fouric on Friday October 01, 2021 @08:10AM
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"Push" and "pull" in this context refer to the initiation of a session. The user is pulling, because they start streaming. Netflix does absolutely nothing by itself - it doesn't randomly start delivering data to you.