Netflix Creates Pro-SOPA Superpac

the hits just keep on coming...

http://rt.com/usa/news/netflix-sopa-pac-lobby-618/

>< I don't use Netflix, but if I did I'd cancel.

Good going Netflix, you just lost a ***ton of members...

This is a dumb move by netflix imo, First step is stopping piracy, next will be getting rid of rental businesses like redbox and netflix their self. They don't see they are opening pandora's box.

If people are illegally downloading movies and tv shows, I highly doubt they are using netflix anyways, lol.

I just cancelled my account after reading that link. Dumbasses.

gonna cancel mine before the end of the month, not like there's anything on there worth watching anyways.

I subscribe to netflix and hulu + and use redbox, but sometimes you just can't find what you're looking for in approved outlets.

Its not really shocking that netflix is supporting it though, piracy hurts their business.

They are supporting ending online piracy, can't really get upset with that.

Ending online piracy huh?

These laws will do nothing of the sort and result in unintended consequences that surely won't benefit the layman.

shitty, canceling today

This is so dis-hearting... I really like my netflix, now I am torn.....

On the surface I'd agree with you, but we both know (at least I hope YOU know, because I do) that nothing is going to stop piracy.

Even if the internet shut down completely, there would still be piracy. It would just be more localized. You can't stop piracy anymore than you can stop the Sun from burning or the galaxy from spinning.

So this is just a bad move. It's just gonna piss people off and they're going to lose customers, and for nothing. Because piracy isn't going anywhere.

I have Netflex but only because I've been too lazy to unsubscribe. The B-movies they have available for streaming are the same B-movies they had 2 months ago. They suck ***. I use wewatchmoviesfree.net or hulu or crackle even. Much better selections and freeeeeee! Bite me netflex, you just lost me.

Would rather see netflix just die anyways, they know members want better material on streaming but they ignore them lol

All I watch is Netflix. This is sorely disappointing. We don't even have cable TV anymore because all we use is Netflix.

:/

The only thing that hurts Netflix is Netflix itself.

They know it's cheaper to buy off politicians than to improve their own service.

All that's needed to stop piracy is to make a service that rivals it. Netflix does it to a degree, but they really need to expand what they have available. But that is too expensive and it's much cheaper just to make the competition illegal.

The competition is already illegal. It's happening now and it will continue happening despite a shitty company throwing their likely soon-to-be significantly decreased weight behind a horribly written bill.

Calling it a battle against piracy is merely wrapping true intentions in a cloak of buzzwords designed to aid in the digestion of legislation that will destroy what makes the internet unique.

Piracy is inevitable but there are business models that lean towards aiding piracy and harming piracy. Music for instance is readily available on the internet but outlets where customers can purchase their favorite songs for a low price is an enticing opportunity for a business to rake in profit amidst the reality of music piracy. $1 for a song or bootleg it with questionable quality? Most people rather drop the dollar and be done with it.

There is a reason people flocked to Netflix even amidst the ability to simply go online and download movies. It had something to do with convenience. A one-stop shop. Ease of use. Innovation.

It's worth mentioning that music piracy is not completely a loss for all parties involved as the recording artists get free marketing via viral exposure which leads individuals to seek out these artists, make purchases of select tracks and attend concerts where the real money is made. Innovation is what will do the most damage to piracy, not systematically attempting to control one of mankind's greatest inventions.

These pieces of legislation simply desire to control the internet, systematically root out the flow of information that has made this age unique and set us back decades all for the sake of squeezing out more profit on the backs of the consumers.

Can't wait to see some innocents thrown in jail for using Happy Birthday in a Youtube montage though. 25 years will teach people to use copyrighted material without permission.

Well, there went my idea of getting Netflix this summer. Now with this I'll reconsider it and go with someone better.

i have 3 accounts with these tards...all unsubscribed. Look at them trying to monopolize lol...

I cancelled my netflix subscription when they increased their fees while not providing the online streams I wanted. If I didn't do it then, I would definitely have done it now.

Why companies think shooting themselves in the foot is a good idea, I'll never know.

And today we have a case of "Nobody looked into the PAC and read a bunch of reactionary articles before the press releases!"

Hell's bells, people, Netflix is a huge net neutrality supporter that lobbied against SOPA the moment SOPA became draconian.

They aren't even support SOPA. That bill was shot down and done and over with.

"Can't wait to see some innocents thrown in jail for using Happy Birthday in a Youtube montage though. 25 years will teach people to use copyrighted material without permission. "

didn't feel like using the quote feature, anyway...^ this type of thing, as well as the other decades long oppression in many other facets of life, would just be one step closer to the next revolutionary conflict in this country, law makers are idiots, they think people will just sit back and take it...well they will, but only for so long, trying to control people only loosens your grip on them...cancelling netfrix

I agree with most of this, except the bold part. I promise you that people in power don't want the internet to die or for people to stop using the internet to disseminate information and opinions. Much of Wall Street itself is now a collection of competing computers rigged to observe human actions in order to turn a profit through High Frequency Trading on the stock market.

The information on the internet is just as useful to the government as to the people who create, view and respond to it. What they want is control of a slightly too chaotic system.

What's the TLDR on this?

And since when is a small modicum of chaos a bad thing? The more people attempt to control the internet the worse off we're all be for it.

I'm aware that industries lose money to pirates yearly but this avenue to solve the problem is destructive to the internet as a whole.

They want to snatch away profit from the pirates? Innovate. Evolve. Adapt. Because you'll never stop the idea of piracy. You can however work around it to great effect as Netflix once did.

Netflix created a PAC, has no official stances, everyone panics. Despite the fact that Netflix will probably care more about net neutrality and infrastructure funding (like USPS) people assume SOPA because LULZ CORPORATIONS ARE EVULZ.

I don't like this, but I'm keeping my netflix account anyway... piracy won't stop at all.... ever... the only reason I don't is cause i'm a lazy *** and don't want to have to sit for an hour downloading one thing ...