BitTorrent Is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic
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It seems like having a NAS full of music and movies is starting to become “Grandpa Technology.” To people who have become utterly reliant on streaming, I’d ask: what happens when the pirate stream is taken down, or the (legit) Netflix removes it from their library, or your Internet goes down, or any other event that causes a denial of access? To me, “files on disk” is still the simplest and most reliable way to collect/consume media. The apocalypse could come, and as long as I have a power source, I’ll have access to my 80’s New Wave Hits playlist.
It seems so weird to voluntarily replace that with something as fragile and inter-dependent as streaming, but maybe I’m just an old man set in his ways.
People are getting trained by shitty UIs to not always find what they want but instead to choose from something that was thrown in their faces. There's little difference between "this content is not available in service XPTO anymore" and "I can't find this content, maybe it's on X, Y or Z service but I can't be arsed to hunt it down - let's watch this other generic Netflix thing that seems to be on the top 10".
Value for money on streaming will only keep dropping and ease of use is kinda gone too with so many services to subscribe to and ads everywhere.
Weird thing to claim because bittorrent traffic is not web traffic at all.
> Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too.
I don't really agree. Rarbg was a huge loss though. But I don't know anyone that uses pirate streaming sites. And they're so prone to takedowns.
- You can get anything you want. Not just Netflix' catalog which is small these days
- You can keep what you download, even when you stop paying you still own it.
I suspect the opening paragraph (“lede”) may have been written by a sub-editor (or the web publication equivalent). The rest of the article - including the headline – correctly refers to Internet or upstream traffic.
Empirically from my experiences, I’ve shifted from watching “official” content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc) to watching a lot more YouTube content. I still watch traditional content, but I also watch a boatload more YouTube than I did 5 or even 10 years ago. There’s just so much out there on YouTube you can pretty much always watch something for a certain topic.
Since there’s no need to pirate YouTube content, there’s less need/desire to use BitTorrent in the first place.
In the past I was active torrents user but now I just lost interest in movies and music, I'm tired of it. I already saw and heard almost everything, nothing "new" will impress me.