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Posted by Derek Janssen on 09/11/07 01:15
TH wrote:
> 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.
Probably because they're not the ones being throttled.
> 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!'
So, you're saying it's *okay* for the company to say it really is all
the greedy-pig and/or ruthless copy-parasite customer's fault, so long
as they admit it in public?
....Well, WE'VE been saying it to your face for years, and you never
believed US! ;)
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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