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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