Netflix: Open Content

(opencontent.netflix.com)

130 points | by tosh 2 hours ago ago

12 comments

  • jcattle an hour ago

    I was curious about this recently. I was wondering about open files of well known artists.

    Unlike netflix/YouTube its not immediately clear to me which Organisation would spearhead something like this out of their own interesting. Closest I know of is the MuseGroup, which are doing this "growing of the pie" with open source music creation Software.

    Anyone know of something else?

  • carschno 2 hours ago

    The last addition was made in 2020.

  • HelloUsername 2 hours ago
  • _flux an hour ago

    Funny how how all the links, including the ones to their own pages, are routed through google.com/url, e.g. the link "Assets Available to Download". Usually tracking isn't quite this visible.

    • afandian an hour ago

      It is very odd. I don’t see a good reason, not even tracking.

  • cooper_ganglia an hour ago

    Cool! I'm looking forward to going through some of these, looks very interesting!

  • FunnyLookinHat an hour ago

    Anyone else surprised that the download links are plain HTTP without SSL? I know it's a page that in the past I would have typically not worried about securing - but nowadays it's SSL everything or else your browser yells at you.

    • uyzstvqs 7 minutes ago

      I'm surprised they didn't use BitTorrent, with these HTTP links as web seeds. That'd make the most sense.

    • ronbenton 26 minutes ago

      Yeah, this is bad. The page almost seems like someone’s pet project that didn’t have any explicit funding and they got bored or left Netflix in 2020. I’m not sure how that would explain the lack of SSL cert except for just general lack of thoroughness.

    • robingchan 14 minutes ago

      this is hosted on s3 which doesn't support HTTPS, that said - if they used cloudfront in front of this bucket, they could save $$$ and have a SSL

    • mrtksn an hour ago

      The page look like zero effort given anyway, like one of the free templates you can find.