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Trouble for Tivo and NetFlix Partnership?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the to-good-to-be-true dept.

lucabrasi999 writes "Well, things may not not be as good for the potential joining up of Netflix and Tivo as once thought. Herb Greenberg, of CBS Marketwatch has a commentary which hints that this deal may not be as great as it once appeared. Why? In short, distribution rights. It appears that Netflix may not legally distribute all of the movies in it's library via Tivo. As a side note, Netflix may also be feeling some economic pressure. It now forces all cancellations occur by phone, making it more difficult to cancel because of a long hold time."

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  1. Does your life lack a cause? by Bad+Move · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    There are people who get up every day, work a 9 to 5 and go home to their families trading their lives for varying degrees of cash. In my view, though clearly not theirs, they are selling their lives very cheaply. These are wage slaves and the difference between people like that and a zombie is generally lost on me. Do you realize that many, I'm not saying all or even most, of the Linux supporters are like this, they have never coded anything in their lives, have never even played a video game, in fact the only reason they are supporting Linux is because it is a cause and their life lacks one. That is an incredibly sad group of folks, and I wonder what their reaction will be when they finally understand they are supporting software and not the second coming.

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    1. Re:Does your life lack a cause? by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What makes you think that software, in general, isn't the second comming? And if it is, wouldn't Jesus give away Wisdom for Free?

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  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  3. Kinda insane by HackHackBoom · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    With all the crap Tivo and similar services are getting from the monopolies, I'm not surprised that any merger or buyout would run into problems.

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  5. You insensitive clod by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't have a phone, I don't have a TV, I don't have a computer, and I don't have any newfangled Inn-tern-net so I don't know why I should be force fed a story about something called Tivo and NetFlix because, to tell you the truth, it sounds like a remake of the Disney movie, Lilo and Stitch.
    So anyway, I'm signing off now. This posting was done by rubbing two maple sticks together outside the telephone company office.

    TDz.

  6. PWNED ! by hungry+manticore · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are surprised and killed by a Manticore! It quickly shreds your flesh and devours you.