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henriklied on April 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US

Smooth Streaming is certainly a great piece of technology, and thanks to the guys at Code Shop, it now works on several devices and using nginx, Apache and lighttpd: http://smoothstreaming.code-shop.com/trac

kowsik on May 1, 2011 [–]

Netflix streaming is like the bittorrent protocol (lots of participant hosts and lots of chunked fetches). See this: http://labs.mudynamics.com/2011/04/07/mommy-netflix-is-eatin...

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