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All that means is that I’ll never add WB movies to my queue. I’ll have forgotten about them by the time I can get them.

Posted by Ginger on 26 January 2012 @ 7pm

Dance Netflix! Dance! Or no movies for you!

Not pretty when the industry throws weight around like this.

Posted by Joe Crawford on 26 January 2012 @ 8pm

I’ve reached complete commercial media apathy: if I can’t stream something from Netflix I’m almost certain to pass it over completely. There’s already more video likely to be equally interesting than I could watch in several lifetimes and I can’t justify paying for a consumer-hostile experience.

This will get particularly interesting as Netflix starts offering their own original content, increasing the cost for a studio which guesses wrong in one of these financial games of chicken.

Posted by Chris Adams on 27 January 2012 @ 9am

I’m with Ginger — they’re just taking their offerings out of my system. crazed.

Posted by acm on 27 January 2012 @ 11am

This is undoubtedly one of the reasons why we bailed on Netflix last year. Half the movies we wanted to watch were not available to stream. Studio douchbaggery not the fault of Netflix to be sure, but why pay for a service that doesn’t deliver 100% of what you want?

Was wondering if it was worth giving Netflix another whirl but stories like this indicate things haven’t gotten a lot better unfortunately.

Posted by Kevin Spencer on 27 January 2012 @ 4pm

That’s the reason to pirate everything. I’m not sure if Netflix will have what I want. I’m quite sure the pirate sites will, in a more convenient form that I can use on any device that I wish to.

Why does the content industry not understand this?

Posted by Mike on 28 January 2012 @ 3am