{"id":9706,"date":"2013-09-16T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9706"},"modified":"2013-09-16T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T17:44:15","slug":"how-netflix-exploits-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-netflix-exploits-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Netflix Exploits Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091613_0148_HowNetflixE1.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Netflix is thought to be the white knight to the evils of piracy \u2013 a way for consumers to pay for quality entertainment without having to pirate it. Yet Netflix also benefits from piracy writes Ernesto:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When deciding which media to acquire the rights for, Netflix looks at the most popular files on illegal downloading sites.<\/li>\n<li>When it launched in the Netherlands, for example, Netflix noted that Prison Break was a frequently downloaded show in the country and acquired the rights to stream the content in the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>While Netflix might utilize pirate sites, it notes that these moves ultimately help it to combat piracy. Traffic to BitTorrent \u2013 a popular system to acquire pirate media \u2013 fell by 50% after Netflix launched in Canada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why people might choose to upgrade from BitTorrent to Netflix, how BitTorrent creates demand for entertainment, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/netflix-uses-pirate-sites-to-determine-what-shows-to-buy-130914\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/netflix-uses-pirate-sites-to-determine-what-shows-to-buy-130914\/\">TorrentFreak<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is thought to be the white knight to the evils of piracy \u2013 a way for consumers to pay for quality entertainment without having to pirate it. Yet Netflix also benefits from piracy writes Ernesto: When deciding which media to acquire the rights for, Netflix looks at the most popular files on illegal downloading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091613_0148_HowNetflixE1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9714,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions\/9714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}