SAN FRANCISCO - Manuel Villanueva realizes he has been getting a pretty good deal since he signed up for Netflix Inc.'s online DVD rental service 2 1/2 years ago, but he still feels shortchanged. That's because the $17.99 monthly fee that he pays to rent up to three DVDs at a time would amount to an even bigger bargain if the company didn't penalize him for returning his movies so quickly.
Netflix typically sends about 13 movies per month to Villanueva's home in Warren, Mich. — down from the 18 to 22 DVDs he once received before the company's automated system identified him as a heavy renter and began delaying his shipments to protect its profits.
The same Netflix formula also shoves Villanueva to the back of the line for the most-wanted DVDs, so the service can send those popular flicks to new subscribers and infrequent renters.
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17 USC § 1008 Prohibition on certain infringement actions:
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the noncommercial use by a consumer for making digital musical or analog musical recordings.
Yeah... me too; I responded by "throttling" my payment.
I knew this would happen or go down. But people insisted on using netflix or blockbuster. I signed up for two weeks, just to recieve 10 movies that i couldnt find on the net at that time. But my 20 dollar payment to usenet gets me 45 movies or more a month.
What a whiney pussy.
He pays for a 3 at a time deal, and thinks he should turn them around every day, i have no sympathy for this CHEAP asshole.
I've been with Netflix almost from the beginning, I've saved far more money with them than I could ever complain about in any cases of slowness.
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Krell I see why you might say that but at the same time and correct me if I'm wrong but doesnt the service allow for unlimited rentals per the flat monthly fee? Unless I'm missing something i think this guy is right to call netflix on their touted "unlimited" rentals.
Everyone needs processing time, he must think they have unlimited migrant workers standing by conveyor belts just WAITING for his DVD to get scanned in, so they can make a mad dash to the post office to deliver his title before noon.
Im saying, he is absurd, and it is this kind of minority "stick it to the man" try to get more than what you pay for mentality that boggs this system down. In fact it bogs all of america down, in every respect.
He needs to work harder at his job at taco bell and bitch less about his pirating.
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Rofl Krell even if I agreed with the rest of your post that last part is absurd, hes paying not pirating, well I cant say he isnt also pirating but he is paying this dvd delivery service so..
Nobody wants 20 dvds a month unless they are fucking wheelchair bound, or copying movies, get real.
What he is doing is SUEING a company so that he can further maximize his scant $18 . . this is why we have a class system, people like this make the bottem tier voluntarily.
What kinda fucking pirate wannabe are you if you cant spot pirating?
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AAAAAH! Mind reading again are we Krell? What kind of conclusion can you draw from the fact that I buy a case of toilet paper a month?
1. Writing a very long novel
2. Real bad case of trotts
3. Have a hell of alot of females in my home.
4. All of the above
Damn if I can figure out how so many conclusions can be made from so little or undocumented information.:icon_scra
I think this kid is Copying the DVD's in a day and sending them back right way to get more. lol
I'll guaranty it, one of this days the FBI will knock on his front door....and a dumb-asses like him deserve it!
Yah, it's prob just because youre a dumbass that likes to argue more then face reasoning. You don't have to be the brightest crayon here, but your' being shamelessly stupid doesnt help your case.Damn if I can figure out how so many conclusions can be made from so little or undocumented information
I have no beef with this guy copying movies, I just think he's a fucktard about it.
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Im lucky if I have time to watch 1 movie a month im even luckier if I can find 1 movie a month that I want to spend time watching.
This guy wants people to belive their are 22 movies a month that he just must watch :/
Id love them to raid his house.
Rest in peace mother
16.1.2006
You will always be with me.
To be honest, I only canceled my NetFlix (temporarily) because I've amassed so many unwatched movies that I just need time to catch up on 'em.
During my two weeks with netflix for the free trial. It took 15 minutes to rip the movie to my pc to compress and burn later.. I returned the movies the same day. I only had the chance to get 10 free ones in the two week period. I also did the same with blockbuster. 20 free movies.. Most were things that hasnt been posted for me to download or rare favorites.
I just counted the movies I have returned, which is about 254 in a 14 month period of time . . . and im SLOW to send them back!
yah, Netflix is slow as hell :D
I will let them use my account for voracity, and post on craiglsist for anyone that knows if this guy copies movies or not.
He's a punk with no proof, and no sense of how things work in the real world.
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