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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
Gideon, you make some clever arguments and I enjoy reading your legal gymnastics, but you are jeopardizing your credibility on this one. Do you really want to take the position that there is no correlation between the fall of Blockbuster video and the rise of Netflix? It's pretty much undisputed at this point.
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do you realize how insanely stupid this arguement is
it must be 100% associated because you can't claim that it 0% associated
of course there is a correlation between the success of netflix and the fall of blockbuster
but it has more to do with their failure to adapt (do you remember blockbusters subscription model, it was more expensive, and gave you less choice)
the correlation is the same correlation between the home viewing market for porn (with the vcr) and the xxx movie theaters.
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Also, you are now walking back your claim and just saying that what Netflix is doing is only "better" than suing file sharers. But you have already claimed that suing uploaders has achieved nothing. So by your own logic that means Neflix is essentially "better than nothing" in regards to stopping piracy. So by your own frame of reference, you've minimized your own claim regarding the impact of Netflix on piracy.
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reread what i said suing uploaders has done WORSE than nothing, it actually increased the amount of P2P traffic
so no i am not minimizing my claim one bit
Netflix success over came the negative position of suing AND THEN SOME
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The bottom line is that Netflix has nothing to do with the debate on piracy. Netflix is a success story and should be studied, but it's a traditional success story about how one company defeated another by offering the same customer a better alternative.
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and if you truely understood how to deal with fair use you would not say that at all
netflix success is bumbling into the partial solution