It's fairly obvious that Hollywood wants to destroy Netflix. they can't stand the fact that you can rent multiple DVD's for a small fee. And the streaming is old movies, also for a small fee.
There are multiple sites that also rent movies via streaming. The difference is that those movies are one at a time, thus the studios make more that way. This includes iTunes, Amazon, & yes, YouTube.
But there are also freebies on Youtube. Mostly older flicks, but they're there. Like this afternoon I watched Nothing Sacred, a 1937 screwball comedy with Carole Lombard. It was funny, but not one of the funniest. Lombard's best is My Man Godfrey, made a year earlier. I also once watched part of Intolerance, the 1916 D.W. Griffith silent with multiple storylines in different time periods, which was probably the first full scale epic at over 3 hours, & looked like it cost quite a lot to make.
I want Netflix to stay around, but the studios don't. they want their money. Not understanding that most of us can't be spending $10 at the theater every week. With Netflix I see movies I would never have seen otherwise. They make money off of those. Why can't Hollywood see that?
It's the same as the music business. Instead of embracing new technology, they try to ban it. Sales of music are down because of 2 things. Bad music & cost. Why spend $15 on a CD with one good song or $1.29 per song. Make downloads $.50 & see sales go through the roof.
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