Columbia Pictures flicks -- mostly -- back on for Xbox 360 Netflix streaming {Engadget HD}

Nov 29th 2008 1:40PM No, I think the hate and rage were good. Let Sony, Columbia, Netflix, and all the other production and distribution services know that we're fed up with their consumer-hostile licensing and distribution models. Netflix is valuable to us precisely because we pay one fee per month, and can see a huge number of movies, from a wide selection of distribution channels. They'd prefer it if we paid that same fee once to each distribution channel. That's 10x the money, after all. The obvious end-case of this kind of degeneration is pay-per-view, which they love. No more movie ownership, just paying $10/person/view like at the theater. With targeted ads. Preferably with you locked in the seat for the ads, and your eyelids glued open.