I went on a road trip and as it was through the middle of nowhere, I downloaded a bunch of shows on various apps to watch on my phone in case I didn’t have data in certain places. When I would try to open a video on my phone that was downloaded (Bad Batch on D+) it would take literal minutes to start, but if I started streaming the same show/episode it would start almost immediately. This seems counterintuitive. Why does it happen?
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Big companies like Disney implement a bunch of security into their app downloads to make it difficult/impossible for people to break the show out of the app and pirate it.
This kind of security will often include some kind of “call home” code where the app tries to contact a server to tell it that you’re watching the file, or to check if your subscription is still valid.
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