[AusNOG] Netflix coming to Australia

[Geordie Guy]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Geordie Guy <elomis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The majority of Australians who want Netflix content are either
>> torrenting it or have Netflix accounts from the US service.
>>
>
> Do you have a reference for that, or is it just your own opinion?
>

As per the previous email, it's based on the combination of the media
reports that there's up to 200,000 subscribers of the service in Australia
as well as reports that routinely run that content that shows on it is
heavily torrented here (I gave the example of GoT but it was pointed out
off-list that GoT isn't a Netflix title so let's go with Walking Dead).

An opinion based on two references if you like.


>
> I live in the US, and the majority of the demographic that I see as
> NetFlix subscribers are people that have no idea what a VPN or a Torrent
> is.  Even with torrents, the simplicity of NetFlix far overrides torrents,
> so the fact that someone knows how to use torrent doesn't mean that they
> are a potential NetFlix subscriber.
>

Probably because Netflix is available there.  Besides, VPNs versus torrents
nouse isn't necessary.   Increasingly services market themselves as "Pay us
$5 a month and we'll show you where on your home modem to change
ns1.bigpond.net.au with a four digit number and then you can just watch
Netflix"


>
> Even if there are "between 50,000 and 200,000 Australian subscribers" (A
> number I don't believe - at least at the top end), that's still less than
> an order of magnitude less (as a percentage of population) than their US
> subscribers - hardly a "Majority".
>

Fair enough.  The media reports it, you don't have to believe it.


>
>   Scott
>
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