Platform Wars - Netflix
Ooops. Netflix may have just made another booboo. Remember the aggressive pricing changes that were designed to force people to start streaming? Ouch! Now Netflx is changing its terms of service in a way that may equally rile users. From Bad Films are Bad,
This looks to us like a play to keep users from moving their viewing history onto competing services, and to stop their users from seeing gaps in their content library that may be available for purchase elsewhere. While this might be in their short term interest, in the longer term, making it harder for people who want to spend money watching films legally online cannot be a good business decision.
Maybe this is not so. But regardless, Netflix needs to explain its change to persuade us that this improves our service. As far as I know, it hzsn’t done that.