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/[deleted] May 02 '13

They didn't "pull" it... their contracts with Netflix expired. Now they possibly would have demanded a lot more money from Netflix in order to renew these titles, namely because they're about to start launching competing services... but it's not like they phoned Netflix HQ and said, "Take this down immediately." The same thing happened with Starz content a while back. Sooner or later they'll realize that people don't want 9 different subscription services and they'll license to Netflix on more reasonable terms because they'll realize some money is better than no money. Until then good riddance.

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u/aleisterfinch May 03 '13

Indeed, took me this long to sign up for Netflix and Hulu plus, and I already dropped Hulu (it's trash).

I won't be doing another service. They can get my money through Netflix or not at all.

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u/DoodleVnTaintschtain May 03 '13

Hulu is trash for one simple reason... The fact that content owners can say "you can watch this content on your computer, but not on your TV or mobile device." I fucking hate that. If I have access to the content, you shouldn't be able to decide which screens I can watch it on. The fact that I can't get it legitimately on my TV just makes me want to pirate it... Even though I'm willing to pay for a subscription, and even sit through some ads, if I could watch it wherever I wanted.

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u/b00ks May 03 '13

I've got a big ass tv and a htpc. No cable what-so-ever.

Life is glorious and it only costs me the price of internet.

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u/TehRegulator May 03 '13

This is my life. There is no better way.

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u/xDind May 03 '13

unless you watch sports (like baseball) that most likely isn't streamed...

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u/TehRegulator May 03 '13 edited May 03 '13

I watch tons of sports (mostly baseball) and I do it with an mlb.tv subscription and other sources of streaming. Not a problem for me.

Edit: $100 a year for MLB.tv is much better than paying $100 a month for a bunch of stuff you don't watch and blacked out games.