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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by fixermark on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:13AM (#12692986)
FWIW, sometimes when I forget my wallet at the corner store, the clerk will just let me take the stick of gum because he knows I'm good for it later.

There's a lot of reasons that analogies between mom and pop face-to-face businesses and massively-middleman'd intermediary transactions break down; this is just one of them.

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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by Jtsummers on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:42AM (#12693275)
> the clerk will just let me take the stick of gum because he knows I'm good for it later.

So you're still going to pay for it. That's not the same as the story here, where they paid for it, got a refund, then got it for "free". They aren't intending to go to the content creators and hand them $5 for it later.

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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by esharte on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:38PM (#12694948)
The $5 isn't going to the content creators.
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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by Jtsummers on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:40PM (#12694963)
A portion of it is. But regardless, via pirating nothing goes to the content creators. Not one penny. If you actually like content, at some point you need to pay for it or you won't get more of what you like.
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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by sqeaky on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @04:24PM (#12696157)
The creator's are often paid and out of the equation. In the most common case the $5 literally does not go the creators.

You might argue that publishers and distributors will hold their portion of the $5 for the next piece of content.

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