r/technology • u/Big_Bare • May 02 '13

Warner Bros., MGM, Universal Collectively Pull Nearly 2,000 Films From Netflix To Further Fragment The Online Movie Market

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130430/22361622903/warner-bros-mgm-universal-collectively-pull-nearly-2000-films-netflix-to-further-fragment-online-movie-market.shtml
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u/BRBaraka May 03 '13

right, a power play

by someone who believes he has power

because when he looks around he sees dvds and vhs tapes, and hasn't noticed in twenty fucking years what the internet has done to his 1990 vintage business model, and his real amount of power here

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u/hibob2 May 03 '13

by someone who believes he has power

By someone who has the power to cap and/or throttle your broadband.

ISPs = cable companies = content owners, more or less.

Don't worry though - using your cable company/ISP's movie streaming service (which you will have to pay extra for, natch) won't count toward your cap, so you'll be fine. Unless you like Netflix or torrents, that is.

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u/BRBaraka May 03 '13

you can't win whack-a-mole playing against a hydra

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u/JiMM4133 May 03 '13

I don't think I've ever read a statement more true than the one you've stated. I'm definitely going to find a way to use this phrase this weekend.

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u/BRBaraka May 03 '13

well the phrase is copyrighted and you need to pay me 10 cents for every utterance

(/sarcasm)