Neflix Hackers Article

Here is an interesting article that I came across about The Rise of the Netflix Hackers:

In less than 10 years, Netflix has grown into a $700 million DVD rental
powerhouse, shipping more than 1.5 million DVDs a day to its base of 6.3 million
subscribers. But the very systems that have made Netflix so successful --
everything from its sophisticated recommendation engine to a profit-maximizing
formula that determines which subscribers get movies first -- have proven
irresistible to hackers, who are constantly looking for new ways to crack,
manipulate and reverse-engineer the company.

Case in point: Just weeks
after Netflix took its first, long-awaited steps into the digital delivery arena
by rolling out its Watch Now
instant viewing feature, which allows users to stream some movies and TV shows
over the internet, one hacker claims to have figured out how to bypass the
mechanism that tracks and limits a subscriber's viewing time.

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