oerpli
Joined 10 years ago
Joined 10 years ago
Your posting doesn't give me the impression that you're very familiar with "science".
If I understand the author right, the big companies are allowed to set up caching servers at ISPs.
Isn't this basically a CDN? If you spin up your own screaming start-up you would first go with akamai or whatever and if you reach sufficient scale you set up your own agreements with ISPs.
Is the blog basically arguing for making it illegal to cut out the middle man here?
Then all the network traffic (a sizable fraction of the entire internet traffic), transcoding & upkeep for all these things. That's only VoD.
Then there's live video which is basically the entire thing above with the additional constraint that there's less room for error and latency.
Some other services tried live video as well, e.g. Netflix or Apple for some keynotes in the past.
For Netflix I recall a few were covered in the media, e.g.: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/16/23685828/netflix-love-is-....
For reference, the first few minutes of these links:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1osi_pQcUdM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjnKuhcfB6U
E.g. my mother even has Office 365 and still constantly gets offers to upgrade to Office 365 shoved in her face. With the pathetic shit that MS is pulling these days I wouldn't put it beyond them to somehow be able to sign up & pay twice for Office.
Can the people working at Microsoft chime in whether they feel any shame? I'm sure it's great for their metrics but it's shows 0% respect for users and also themselves. Some journalist should ask Satya how he feels about being the CEO of the largest panhandler organization in the history of mankind.