That would require distribution work. This way, the DVDs go to someone who actually wanted to watch them, rather than a landfill. It’s the cheapest option that isn’t straight up evil.
And nothing is stopping anyone with one of these from now donating them to a local library, should they not want the DVD to keep.
I assume Netflix had ways to slim down the number of discs they had in the past (like once a new release is less in demand), were those all going to the landfill or did they sell them to some sort of 3rd party? (I know GameFly will sell directly to consumers, but not sure what Netflix did)
Way I see it, it was either give it to you or let it go to a landfill.
Can people sign up to get some? My gut says that it’s existing customers only, but I’d like to have some DRM free local copies if I can.
Then again, it’s easy enough to just download…
DVDs are not DRM free, they’re just easily broken 15 years after the format stopped seeing innovation.
You can sign up until August 28th
I liked the idea of them being given to libraries.
That would require distribution work. This way, the DVDs go to someone who actually wanted to watch them, rather than a landfill. It’s the cheapest option that isn’t straight up evil.
And nothing is stopping anyone with one of these from now donating them to a local library, should they not want the DVD to keep.
thats a good point and a reason for folks to grab any they can just to do that.
Sadly, like most companies, they’d rather throw them away quietly.
I assume Netflix had ways to slim down the number of discs they had in the past (like once a new release is less in demand), were those all going to the landfill or did they sell them to some sort of 3rd party? (I know GameFly will sell directly to consumers, but not sure what Netflix did)