WTF! Netflix is cheating!

[PowerMac4Ever]

Originally posted by: PipBoy

Originally posted by: novon
Netflix buys lisences not the actual retail dvd, so if it looses one in the mail, I think they can copy to make up for it, or get a replacement.

are you talking out your ass or do you know this for a fact?

novon is correct.

 

[vi edit]

It's the same thing that Columbia House or BMG do. They buy the rights to the movie/album and then stamp out their own disk.

 

[faZZter]

I have never seen a copied DVD sent to me from Netflix.

I'm not buyin' it.

 

[dvdrdiscs]

Netflix is great. I'm more concerned with the fact that you rented Dumb and Dumberer.

 

[Spooner]

Yes, I've noticed this same thing time and time again from Netflix.

While I don't know they actual answer, it would make sense that they'd buy the license instead of the actual DVD for easy replacement.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Hubris

Originally posted by: GeekDrew I've got an original of Dumb and Dumberer and it looks like that :-/

And for that YOU should be shot.

And why would that be? It doesn't have a NetFlix logo on it, but the remainder of it looks the same... :-/

Although I have no factual basis, I'm sure that NetFlix has a licensure agreement so that they can copy whatever they want, make their own disc covers, etc.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: digitalsm

Originally posted by: PipBoy

Originally posted by: digitalsm

LOS GATOS, CA (June 12, 2001) ? NetFlix (www.netflix.com), the world's largest online DVD rental source, announced today that it has entered into revenue sharing agreements with the home entertainment divisions of DreamWorks SKG, Twentieth Century Fox, and Universal Studios. Netflix is the first online renter of DVDs to have secured revenue sharing agreements with major motion picture studios and distributors.

They can legally make copies.

how does revenue sharing = making copies?

It simple, its likely in their revenue sharing agreement. As long as the studios and distributors are getting thier $$$ they dont care. Its called buisness. The studios/distributors aren't losing any money, they are only gaining profit.

its how blockbuster and hollywood video work. how do u think they load up on those hot releases so easily? they don't buy 100 at 20 dollars a pop, which would really suck, but they have a deal with the movie company to share profits, so the movie company doesn't rip them off on the dvds. it wasn't always like this, they used ot charge the stores over a hundred bux i think per video before revenue sharing.

as for the so called copies, are they even dvd r's? or are they pressed, i've never seen a non pressed dvd form netflix, and i've been using them from the start.