Will Netflix Destroy the Internet?

nicholasjay writes "Netflix is swallowing America's bandwidth and it probably won't be long before it comes for the rest of the world. That's one of the headlines from Sandvine's Fall 2010 Global Internet Phenomena Report, an exhaustive look at what people around the world are doing with their Internet lines. According to Sandvine, Netflix accounts for 20 percent of downstream Internet traffic during peak home Internet usage hours in North America. That's an amazing share — it beats that of YouTube, iTunes, Hulu, and, perhaps most tellingly, the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol BitTorrent."

The answer is...

[adamgolding]

Yes. Clearly Netflix will 'destroy the internet'.

Netflix rocks!

[mrflash818]

... and that is 20% of the internet's bandwidth no longer available to email spammers, too.

win-win

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Re:So, how long before...

[Chrisq]

Your ISP (among others) will punish you for doing things the Internet was originally designed for.

Unless you work for, or are an ally of, the US Military, that is...

Darn, I was planning to invade Iraq

Re:The answer is...

[Anonymous Coward]

Except in certain markets, where apparently, the Internet will destroy Netflix.

Damn those soviet russian markets!

Re:How does never work for you

[Anubis350]

Most business class connections and up are true unlimited, based on the connection speed, not on the amount. Verizon doesn't care if I max out my FIOS business class connection 24/7, I'm paying a premium for the connection, and they're providing me the bandwidth I'm paying for. To put it another way, they've allocated that trunk as if it were going to be heavily used, and so aren't over-selling as much as on the consumer connections.

Using the internet will destroy it, story at 11

[noidentity]

Yes, using the Internet for transporting data between machines will destroy it. We must avoid using the Internet in order to save it so that it will be there for future generations to not use!

Re:So, how long before...

[gblackwo]

Al Gore is a pretty smart guy, i'm pretty sure he would've seen something like Netflix coming.

4294967296 addresses should b enough for everybody

[Thud457]

seriously, four billion addresses is almost enough for every man, woman and child on the planet (in 1969) to have one.

You don't honestly believe we would have more computers than people, do you?!!!


Plus, this whole electronic data processing thing is just a fad...

Re:What happened to the Dark Fiber?

[lennier]

All the dark fiber in the world won't help solve the Last Mile problem.

Both of which would make great Stephen King novel titles.