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Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices

sperlingreich writes "Last week, after movie streaming service Netflix raised its prices by 60%, the company's customers took to blogs and social networks in revolt, threatening to cancel their subscriptions. However, between the cost of mailing DVDs and paying increased licensing fees for content, a Netflix rate hike was inevitable. Is it still a great movie bargain? What alternative services are there?"

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  1. Re:Frist Pots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hope you get a particularly nasty and painful form of cancer...

    For what? Questioning the nature of the racism that still exists today? Having a different take on something than your personal orthodoxy? Let me guess, you think I cannot and do not treat black people with kindness and respect just because I question whether what we are doing is really in their best interests?

    For that you want someone to suffer a prolonged, painful death? Do you suppose that makes you a good person? Does it make you better than what you oppose? You think you're telling me a thing or two. You are, but only about the evil within yourself. You are exactly like the Inquisitors who threatened people like Galileo for the "crime" of thinking freely. Does it feel good to know what you resemble?

    If you want to explain your own viewpoint please do. If you think I have it all wrong and can show me the error of my ways, go for it. The forum is open. If your alternative to that is to wish suffering and death on strangers because you disagree with them, well that's just fucking childish. Not to mention evil. If this is the kind of person who supports the Liberal race-sensitivity agenda, well that's all you need to know about how good its intentions must be.

    Just curious, have you ever met a black person who thinks affirmative action is an insult? I have. They tend to be responsible go-getters who worked for everything they have and don't want a handout from anyone because they like to know they earned what they keep. Do you want them to die of cancer too, or do you discriminate based on race? Oh but somehow it's not racism when you do it, right, you hypocrite?

    Very much against your intention I am sure, you have only confirmed that I must be onto something true. One of the surest signs something is true and has struck a nerve is when small-minded people such as yourself cannot handle it like civil mature adults. Thank you for the confirmation.