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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by jrnichols on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:51AM (#12693348)
They're hoping that you'll buy the physical media. That's been the plan with Redbox - force a 28-90 day delay on new releases so customers will rush right out and just buy it on DVD. reality is that people usually just wait.

The studios don't really want to cooperate. They want complete control over how you watch their product.

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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:48AM (#12693898)
Agreed.

In the UK we no longer have rights to format shift (we did, but they were rescinded), so if you bought it on DVD and want to watch on your tablet - well you'll probably have to buy it again or infringe the letter of the copyright law.

What's that? Want to stream it to another device from your computer, ha-ha, no chance. If media companies made such things legal (they control the copyright laws) then there's no telling what might happen. People watching the media they paid for, how absurd!

They want to sell you a cinema viewing, sell you a DVD, sell you a tablet download, and even then sell you a streaming copy to watch on your TV (because who has a DVD player now).

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