A 28-Day Window Before You Can Even *Think* About Renting A Movie

Ben Fritz for the LA Times Company Town blog:

Under a new deal between the two companies, Netflix users won’t just have to wait 56 days to rent Warner Bros. movies on DVD. They’ll have to wait 28 days to add the movies to their queues.

Creating a 28-day window between DVD release and rental period was ridiculous. When that didn’t work, doubling the window to 56 days was bullshit. But now creating a 28-day window before you can even add a movie to your Netflix queue is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.

I’ve vastly underestimated just how fucktarded Hollywood is.

Writes Marco Arment:

If I’m adding a movie to my Netflix queue, I’ve already decided not to buy the DVD. I’m adding it because it looks mildly interesting and I’d like to watch it sometime. If I can’t add it to Netflix, I’ll just forget about it and probably never see it.

I hope we all realize where this eventually leads: the banning of movie rentals entirely. 

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  1. arctowardsthesun reblogged this from gallifreygal
  2. star-the-anglophile reblogged this from ravens-nest and added:
    Is there anyone in Hollywood who still have any brain cells left? I’m starting to think not.
  3. judily reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    Really? What are these people thinking?
  4. jager00x reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    This is the next SOPA using underhanded tactics forth to force people to buy their terrible movies.
  5. tinaalsgirl reblogged this from gallifreygal
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  7. ravens-nest reblogged this from gallifreygal and added:
    Thanks for making me want to pursue DLing options even more aggressively, Warner Bros.
  8. tnlnyc reblogged this from parislemon
  9. gallifreygal reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    It’s really adorable when the studios think they can control when we can get their content. It really is. No, wait. It...
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  12. tommaxwell reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    This about sums up my thoughts on Hollywood. parislemon:
  13. brucefairbanks reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    Wow, the people that work at these movie studios are complete imbeciles.
  14. adelinamae reblogged this from parislemon
  15. jaydeezee reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    The sooner old media companies go out of business the better.
  16. vb reblogged this from sgtstretch and added:
    I love how they think this is going to sell DVDs. What it does is actually makes it a no-brainer for me to steal it with...
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  22. 4juicy reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    Then we’ll watch homegrown vids on Youtube
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