Monday, January 03, 2011

Thanks, Netflix!

So I signed up for a Netflix instant streaming free trial under the mistaken impression that I would be able to use it to watch movies. Turns out they require Silverlight, which is of course the work of Satan. After doing some searching to find out if there's a way to stream to a PC without Silverlight (there isn't) and whether it's possible to contact technical support without making a phone call (it isn't) I decided to cancel my account. Time elapsed: 42 minutes.

Now here's the interesting part: on the why did you cancel, oh god, why? page there are the obvious questions, but midway down there's something that kind of surprised me. They want to know where I'm going to be watching movies and TV shows now that I'm cut off from their life-giving nectar, which is a reasonable question. However the first two multiple-choice options are Bootleg DVDs and Peer-to-peer / bit torrent sites such as Torrentz.com, Demonoid.com, Tvlinks.com, ThePirateBay.org, etc.

Wow, Netflix is giving out juicy tips on where to illegally acquire copyrighted material! I'm really glad they have such a positive attitude towards P2P that they're basically advertising it to ex-customers! A+++++ WOULD CANCEL SERVICE AGAIN.