DeathKnell
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Remember Netflix claiming that wherever it launched, piracy and BitTorrent traffic fell? Well BitTorrent for one is not convinced by the Netflix line.
In a post titled "Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated", Matt Mason, BitTorrent's VP of marketing, announced that Netflix had got a couple of things dead wrong when its COO Ted Sarandos said there was a correlation between Netflix arriving and BitTorrent traffic going down.
Mason began: "We want to take a moment to correct two of his comments. The first issue is the application of BitTorrent as a synonym for internet piracy.
"The second is the assertion that BitTorrent traffic drops as Netflix is introduced to new markets. Neither statement is true."
Full Story:
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/bittorrent-hey-we-re-not-even-that-good-at-piracy--1149701
In a post titled "Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated", Matt Mason, BitTorrent's VP of marketing, announced that Netflix had got a couple of things dead wrong when its COO Ted Sarandos said there was a correlation between Netflix arriving and BitTorrent traffic going down.
Mason began: "We want to take a moment to correct two of his comments. The first issue is the application of BitTorrent as a synonym for internet piracy.
"The second is the assertion that BitTorrent traffic drops as Netflix is introduced to new markets. Neither statement is true."
Full Story:
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/bittorrent-hey-we-re-not-even-that-good-at-piracy--1149701