Thursday, March 8, 2007
Interviewed for a WIRED story on Netflix
I was contacted by a writer for WIRED about a couple of older blog posts I did on Netflix here and here. The article is supposed to be about the "hacking/cracking culture that Netflix seems to engender."
I'm not sure if my stuff will get used or not since I noted that I wasn't trying to be a Netflix hacker. I simply wanted to regain the level of service that I got as a new customer (and to show that "throttling/smoothing" existed).
Hopefully I won't come off like a kook or a Netflix hater (I *did* love the service when I was a new member).
I was contacted by a writer for WIRED about a couple of older blog posts I did on Netflix here and here. The article is supposed to be about the "hacking/cracking culture that Netflix seems to engender."
I'm not sure if my stuff will get used or not since I noted that I wasn't trying to be a Netflix hacker. I simply wanted to regain the level of service that I got as a new customer (and to show that "throttling/smoothing" existed).
Hopefully I won't come off like a kook or a Netflix hater (I *did* love the service when I was a new member).
¶ 2:22 PM 
Comments:
I wish that Netflix didn't throttle and there was be at least an extra-cost option to keep getting movies quickly. I would say a subscription of $15 for 8 discs/month plus $3 for ea. additional movie would be a worthwhile plan. The way they do it now (sneaky throttling), they just hurt their reputation and anger their customers.
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