Posted by Nonymous on 11/30/05 10:59

<wunnuy@netzero.net> wrote in message
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> to me, it's just crazy that Netflix, when confronted by all the new
> competition that threatens to take business away or even put them out
> of business, they then make their service worse. I can never understand
> it. I was a long time customer and then they started that throttling
> crap on me. What could they possibly be thinking?

For customers that are renting so much and so often that they're being
throttled, Netflix doesn't really care them since they'd be losing money if
they didn't throttle. They could care less if these customers drop their
subscription. It's only the other customers (which vastly outnumber the
latter) that they're interested in: those that rent casually enough that
they dont need throttled or those whose rental frequency is right on the
edge such that are being throttled but don't really noticed nor care.

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