

I have high storage capacities on my phone and PC, but I’ve always wondered how much data Netflix actually uses when it downloads the stuff I want to watch. Whenever I watch Netflix on my phone or PC, I have the habit of downloading shows and movies rather than streaming them. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. When you buy through links on my blog, I may earn an affiliate commission. Hell, that's how I ran across this.RobotPoweredHome is reader-supported. NO provider (that I've run into) has instituted limitationsĭ: Limiting valid downloads stops nothing! Amazon is probably the worst provider to be limiting from, as people actually do purchase movies and TV from there, and those CAN stack up quickly.

Further proof that the staff behind Streamfab are fucking morons. I've done some pretty intense downloading and haven't run into issues thereī: Their arbitrary (50 downloads / day) limitation is pretty weakĬ: They indicate this comes from the provider, but it does not. However, let's break this down for a bit, shall we?Ī: This seems to be only affecting Amazon as I see it right now. I'm a slight bit delayed on posting this, because I haven't actually actively used StreamFab in a while, simply because the product and development is literal shit. Thanks for your support and understandings. We don’t want any parties be involved into an infinite war. To fight against unfriendly piracy of downloading might lead to the upgrade of their websites or DRM protection to make StreamFab or other tools not to work, for a short period of course. This is why the streaming services implement the limit to the offline video downloading number as well because this is the biggest part of their cost of business operation. For now, up to 50 videos downloading from every single website per day shall take effect.Īs we know, CDN is used to store the videos of streaming service, while the price is very expensive.

In order to maintain the ecosystem of streaming service, following the principle of fair use, we decide to add limitation to the maximum video number when downloading the videos from streaming services in StreamFab. As if customers needed yet another reason to reject Streamfab, here we go
