Posted by wunnuy on 04/05/06 15:44
cobbcity@snet.net wrote:
> AGREED!
>
> 1. The US Patent office should have never issued the patents to
> Netflix.
> 2. This just creates bad PR for Netflix.
>
> It's as if Wal-Mart applied for and received a patent on "a store where
> customers select their merchandise then come to the front of the store,
> where a cashier totals their purchase and collects payment" and then
> Wal-Mart sued every other retailer (Target, Home Depot, Kolh's etc.)
> that had a store with registers in front where customers checked out
> (like 99% of all stores).
>
Plus there are other smaller companies doing it too - why doesn't
netflix sue them? I think all this is just another step in the end
result of another big DVD by mail company starting up.
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