Netflix granted DVD rental patent.

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: PipBoy

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Vic
/cancels Netflix account

you should star canceling/selling everything you have. you have no idea how many patents are out there😛

I have no issues with patents. What I do have issues with is monopolistic business practices. If you had read the article, you would have known that Netflix already has 95% market share. With this new and foolishly granted patent, Netflix will now have 100% share with government sanction. I will not support such a company with my hard-earned consumer dollars if I can help, hence I cancelled my account.
Get it? Got it? Good.

that is some fvcked up reasoning. would you prefer it if netflix had no protection on their business model so walmart can come in yet again and rape another company into submission?

Generic lube, $3, aisle 24.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Vic
/cancels Netflix account

you should star canceling/selling everything you have. you have no idea how many patents are out there😛

I have no issues with patents. What I do have issues with is monopolistic business practices. If you had read the article, you would have known that Netflix already has 95% market share. With this new and foolishly granted patent, Netflix will now have 100% share with government sanction. I will not support such a company with my hard-earned consumer dollars if I can help, hence I cancelled my account.
Get it? Got it? Good.

not normal patents, absurd patents for most anything. everycompany seems to measure their progress by the number of patents they can spit out.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: PipBoy
that is some fvcked up reasoning. would you prefer it if netflix had no protection on their business model so walmart can come in yet again and rape another company into submission?

Thanks. 🙂
This patent will only accelerate that process. Now that Netflix holds a patent to a monopoly, it is only a matter of time before one of the Big Boys, like Wal-Mart, steps in and buys them for top dollar.
In short, good news for Netflix stockholders, bad news for everyone else.

 

[yukichigai]

eBay patented the proxy bidding system, but then they got fined for stealing the "Buy It Now" option from someone else who had already patented it. I doubt this is a patent on DVD rentals through the mail. Most likely it is -- like has been said -- a patent on the specific queue system they use. I doubt it's the return envelopes since that's a general communications thing that several companies employ.

 

[SoylentGreen]

The patent on this is asinine.

Walmart is asinine for going online DVD rentals. Keep you fscking hands out of everything. However I do shop there for cheap bottled water, cat food and misc other items.

For example Fancy Feast cat food is 39c a can there and 53c everywhere else.

 

[Thraxen]

For example Fancy Feast cat food is 39c a can there and 53c everywhere else.

Haha... I get my moist cat food there too... along with toothpaste and the like.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

just so you all know, i have pantend the digestive process, the english language, and LAN parties.

THE WORLD IS MY OYSTER AND I'M ALLERGIC TO SHELLFISH!!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Kevin]

I want to patent taking a sh-t. That way, I can charge like $1 per dropped load. Think of all the royalties that will roll in from Taco Bell and the like...

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Kevin
I want to patent taking a sh-t. That way, I can charge like $1 per dropped load. Think of all the royalties that will roll in from Taco Bell and the like...

Pay yourself $1 for that post alone.

 

[sohcrates]

Originally posted by: yukichigai
eBay patented the proxy bidding system, but then they got fined for stealing the "Buy It Now" option from someone else who had already patented it. I doubt this is a patent on DVD rentals through the mail. Most likely it is -- like has been said -- a patent on the specific queue system they use. I doubt it's the return envelopes since that's a general communications thing that several companies employ.

once a patent is published, it's available to the public....ya'll should be able to find it if you know where to look
and no, it's not a patent on the envelope or anything,

it's actually quite a broad patent regarding buying a select number of items over the internet....in fact, if i were to guess, i'd give it less than a week or two before it goes back to the patent office for "re-evaluation"

stuff like this is never supposed to become a patent

but look at the effects, the patent was issued TODAY and already it's all over the news AND netflix's stock has shot up...patents are powerful, but they have to be valid to have any weight.

 

[Kenazo]

I hear disney is trying to develop a temporary DVD that destroys itself after a day or two... some sort of chemical reaction once the package is open. Perhaps netflix should look into that technology. Then they don't need to worry about return costs.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
I hear disney is trying to develop a temporary DVD that destroys itself after a day or two... some sort of chemical reaction once the package is open. Perhaps netflix should look into that technology. Then they don't need to worry about return costs.

You mean like this?

 

[DorkBoy]

wasn't netflix first ?

 

[fr]

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued the company a patent that covers its online subscription-based DVD rental service

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
the patent office should be closed if they're going to grant stupid sh!t like that

I remember awhile back some kid patented the side-to-side swinging motion... and they granted it...

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Kenazo
I hear disney is trying to develop a temporary DVD that destroys itself after a day or two... some sort of chemical reaction once the package is open. Perhaps netflix should look into that technology. Then they don't need to worry about return costs.

You mean like this?

Yup, that's exactly what i'm talking about. Disney is trying to take some $ away from blockbuster by selling "disposable" dvd's for $5 or so.

 

[Eli]

It's all good, as long as they can still be copied. 😉

 

[KK]

Anybody that rents dvd's online is an idiot in my book. To fvckin fat or lazy to head down to the local rental place.

KK

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: KK
Anybody that rents dvd's online is an idiot in my book. To fvckin fat or lazy to head down to the local rental place.

KK

I must be an idiot then. Never mind that I can watch 10-12 movies a month for about half what it would cost at a local rental place, or the fact that I don't have to waste my time or gas going to the store.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: KK
Anybody that rents dvd's online is an idiot in my book. To fvckin fat or lazy to head down to the local rental place.

KK

AND I THINK YOU ARE FVCKIN IDIOT! PEOPLE RENT THEM ONLINE BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER YOU MORON

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: PipBoy

Originally posted by: KK
Anybody that rents dvd's online is an idiot in my book. To fvckin fat or lazy to head down to the local rental place.

KK

I must be an idiot then. Never mind that I can watch 10-12 movies a month for about half what it would cost at a local rental place, or the fact that I don't have to waste my time or gas going to the store.

Okay, let's see here. 10-12 movies a month, 18 hours wasted watching movies a month. Do you realize how much time that is.

Originally posted by: PipBoy

AND I THINK YOU ARE FVCKIN IDIOT! PEOPLE RENT THEM ONLINE BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER YOU MORON

what you say?

KK

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: KK
what you say?

KK

I didn't write what you quoted there. But I will say, who the fvck are you to judge how I spend my time? I like to watch movies, so SUCK IT! 😉

 

[DanJ]

Much like the Segway (or "It"), this new "DVD renting" technology will revolutionize the way cities are built.

 

[psianime]

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[DanJ]

Originally posted by: psianime
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Ah, thanks for the edit 😉