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 Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/06/06 04:30 
TH wrote: 
 
> Haddatten Huttendrut wrote: 
>  
>>In article <1165335733.273390.211630@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, 
>> "TH" <thehendersons44@aol.com> wrote: 
>> 
>>>They didn't lose, as it has never gone to court.  A settlement was proposed, 
>> 
>>though I don't know the current status and don't care.  It will never go to 
>>court - it's a nuisance lawsuit that would cost more to fight; a law firm gets a 
>>large windfall, and members of the class get something worth a buck or two. 
>> 
> A settlment was agreed on as every netflix customer was allowed some 
> free month of an extra disk or something like that - which relieved 
> them of any future lawsuits by the customer (if they agreed to the 
> extra disk). My point was Netflix was sued. Netflix admits to 
> throttling and you have zero argument for why this is good. 
>  
>>You apparently don't know how little it takes to launch a class-action suit and 
>>how few direct participants are required, or you wouldn't be so impressed. 
>  
>  
> What I am impressed is how when someone comes in here complaining about 
> being throttled, the same three or four guys jump all over them, whine 
> about how wrong they are for actualy wanting what Netflix advertises 
> and then babble on about their own viewing habits as if that has 
> anything to do with the price of tea in China. Although I think you're 
> a lot smarter than a couple of the other nitwits, your argument that 
> 'they can do whatever they want, they work fine for me, you have bad 
> viewing habits, they don't have to live up to their slogan because I 
> have determined 'unlimited' is not what it seems" is not really a good 
> argument for Netflix. The only thing you said that is smart that I 
> agree with is "they need to change their advertising." If they changed 
> it to "you can get up to 12 disks a month" or "as many as we say" or 
> someting lke that, you'd never hear the "throttling" argument again. 
 
Again: 
A) They have a limited plan, 
B) This isn't it, 
Therefore 
C) it's "unlimited". 
 
<bangs gavel> 
Court finds in favor of the defendant...Baliff, kindly escort the  
plaintiff out the door, next case. 
 
Derek Janssen 
ejanss@comcast.net
 
  
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