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on Wednesday September 02 2015, @04:58AM
from the optimus-prime-is-not-happy dept.
from the optimus-prime-is-not-happy dept.
Thousands of movies will be removed from Netflix in the US after the streaming service decided not to renew a deal with distributor Epix.
Removed titles will include the Hunger Games and Transformers movies.
Netflix, which has more than 60 million subscribers worldwide, said it wanted to focus on exclusive content.
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Explaining the move to subscribers, Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos wrote: "While many of these movies are popular, they are also widely available on cable and other subscription platforms at the same time as they are on Netflix and subject to the same drawn out licensing periods."
Will this change in their library make you more or less likely to subscribe, or continue to subscribe?
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Netflix Takes Gamble With Epix Film Cull in U.S.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by anubi on Wednesday September 02 2015, @07:11AM
Actually, things like this make other ways of getting content... like bit-torrent ... look like a more reliable way of getting stuff.
Not to say I condone it, but while the businessmen are bickering, their customers are getting fed up and going elsewhere and learning new tricks.
Another example of demand destruction is a couple of years ago, the soft drink prices seemed to skyrocket. I learned how to carbonate my own sodas with a cylinder of CO2 and a soda-bottle with a tire stem mounted in the cap. I have not bought soda since. I make my own. The prices came back down, but I still no longer buy soda pop. I now prefer my "roll my own" stuff to that the stores sell. I was not motivated sufficiently to learn how to make my own soda pop until some people got carried away with their pricing schemes.
Sometimes, this "artificial scarcity" meme - created only by lawmaker's pens - backfires. The credibility of law fails as lawmakers pander to the ones trying to create shortages of something that in reality is in nearly unlimited supply. They might as well try to charge for lighting a fire because someone submitted a claim on doing it. They think that law is going to shore up a business model supported solely by enforcement of "right to produce"? Only thing those kind of laws have ever done is foment a disrespect for the law. Matter of fact, we have no law except for those enforced by physics. All the rest of the tomes of books in lawyer's offices are merely ordinances, enforced only if some agent catches you doing it against his will.
I guess what I am trying to say is while some executive types are trying to create an artificial scarcity of their content, an unintended consequence is they are encouraging more of what used to be paying customers into the benefits of other distribution methods, and once their former customers learn the other ways of doing things, they now have the additional burden of trying to get them back.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @08:29AM
You can find plastic ones that are cheaper, but a CO2 cap like this may be interesting to you. I use them often. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X08WCQE/ [amazon.com]
Depending on how much you drink, a 5 gallon pony keg might also be something to acquire. Keep it on CO2 and put it on tap.