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RE: So, to clarify
By AEvangel on 1/6/2010 7:28:36 PM , Rating: 5
That's like penalizing sexual predators by only taking away their cars.

Really it's more like saying the closed the park down on one side of now all the perverts will just go across town to the other park.

Bottom line is your not stopping or addressing the actual problem your just making it a little more annoying to customers that actually legally pay for a service.

RE: So, to clarify
By inighthawki on 1/6/2010 7:39:40 PM , Rating: 5

How does this differ from any other anti-piracy system, which was cracked in a day leaving legit users with some form of annoyance to deal with...

RE: So, to clarify
By Alexstarfire on 1/6/2010 7:45:04 PM , Rating: 2
Nothing needs to even be cracked. It's not even a roadblock.... more like a pothole. You just kinda swerve to avoid it, but if not it's all right anyway.

RE: So, to clarify
By DarkElfa on 1/6/2010 11:18:41 PM , Rating: 5
Pirates don't get their crap from Netfilx?!! Hell, almost every new release the pirates do is out 1-3 months before Netfilx even gets them.

RE: So, to clarify
By Samus on 1/7/2010 2:01:05 AM , Rating: 5
That's what I'm saying! Seriously, in the torrent community, almost everything is sourced from retail. Do they actually think pirates are going to wait 3 days for the DVD in the mail?

And if you're going to argue the pirates they're after are just the home users that rip for their own collection, go ahead and argue. Because as stated above, if they don't want to buy it, they'll just get it from Blockbuster.

This is amazingly stupid of Netflix. Who's going to wait a month for a DVD release when the video stores have it? Basically, we're going backwards. As in, we're going back to the video store domination.

RE: So, to clarify
By frobizzle on 1/7/2010 8:38:11 AM , Rating: 2
If this wasn't so pathetic, it might actually be funny!

Almost any movie (worth seeing) is usually available to download weeks or months before the DVD/Blue Ray comes out. Another impotent action by the movie studios!

And as the OP pointed out, pirates do not bother getting their movies from Netflix!

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RE: So, to clarify
By akse on 1/7/2010 3:18:03 AM , Rating: 5
Lol yeah.

So now people that would use netfilx get their movies later and start to think "the hell with the waiting I just DL from torrentsite X and get the movie today instead of month later"

Stupid move which only increases piracy.

RE: So, to clarify
By CZroe on 1/7/2010 12:19:54 PM , Rating: 2
You'd be surprised how much casual piracy is done off line. Most casual pirates don't consider waiting a hassle while they DO consider finding, downloading, converting, fixing, etc a hassle, especially when it isn't what they wanted (DVD5 rip, shitty cam rip claiming "DVD quality!" even after the freakin' DVD is released, etc).

RE: So, to clarify
By CZroe on 1/7/2010 12:21:37 PM , Rating: 3
For example, my brother prefers to backup his own Blu-Ray discs. Why DL 50GB and have your Internet connection suffer all day when you have the disc RIGHT THERE?

RE: So, to clarify
By ArcliteHawaii on 1/7/2010 9:52:02 PM , Rating: 1
Right, DVDs I could see since they are so easy to burn and return, but BRDs? You can only fit about 25 per terabyte hard drive before you run out of space. That's only about a months supply. ANd they don't fit on burnable Bluray.

RE: So, to clarify
By leexgx on 1/8/2010 4:06:18 AM , Rating: 3
if using H.264/ac3 5.1 MKV container (AC3 5.1 is a lot smaller unless high end setup DTS not needed) your talking about 6-12gb thats more like 100 per 1TB HDD, unless your really wanting ISO copies at 30-50GB each

not that i rent dvd's or BR any way

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Come on, people. This obviously isn't about piracy



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