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Posted by TH on 09/10/07 23:56
On Sep 9, 9:06 pm, shower_urinator <shower_urina...@lycos.com> wrote:
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> Netflix has to throttle to limit mass copying.
Fine. I have no problem with that as long as they stop making the
claim "as many movies as you want." If they change their advertising
to "unlimited movies unless we deem it to be too many, then we'll hold
back some" they'd never get another complaint. Ever.
But when i see people sticking up for their throttling practices, it's
completely baffling to me. If they're losing money so they have to
throttle, then they need to change their slogan and tell people "yeah,
we throttle, so hold on to your movies longer." You may like the
service but you're telling everyone they're great isn't going to
change the minds of the millions of people getting throttled. It would
be like Skilling's daughter telling Enron employees "he's not a bad
man, he's great!'
BTW, Blockbuster is just as bad. I've had it for a week. So far I've
gotten two movies. One was sitting my queue the entire time and never
showed. I emailed and told them, so they took it out of my queue and
said "we'll send another copy" so now, despite the fact there are
three movies 'returned" my queue is empty. So so far, in the first
week, I've had two movies sent to me. They 'returned" this morning but
despite the fact I've got 30 movies in my queue all available, my
queue is still empty. It's only a two week trial so I will definitely
be canceling. Sadly, there is no such thing as a good online rental
service. How sad.
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