re: Netflix Loses Starz Deal, Stock Crushed In After Hours Trading

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geez, wtf is up with netflix??

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The industry is going to end up repeating the same mistakes as the music industry and lose young customers to illegal downloads if they don't get their shite together.

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This.

I was an extremely active in downloading movies and TV illegally about 4 years ago. Since I was able to use Netflix, I haven't downloaded a single movie illegally. Why do they want to push people away.

It seems we are moving towards one of two things:

1) Every single cable operator will have their own service like HBO. This will result in a rapid increase in prices for the customer. They aren't only reverting back to the problem before cable, since cable is essentially a group share model, but they are just making stupid mistakes.

2) Brow beating new technology into submission to where we keep cable as it is now and make on-demand some sort of premium service.

They are basically saying: Screw you consumers!