{"id":390726,"date":"2010-03-04T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002869"},"modified":"2010-03-04T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:44:02","slug":"lawsuit-filed-over-netflixwarner-28-day-waiting-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390726","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Filed Over Netflix\/Warner 28-Day Waiting Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/netfux-thumb-240x180-37762.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Is anyone really surprised it came to this? A Netflix subscriber isn&#8217;t happy about having to wait 28 days for Warner Home Video movies to be made available on the video delivery service, so she&#8217;s filed a class action lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff contends that a deal <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/netflix-agrees-to-delay-warner-bros-new-dvds-for-28-days.html\" >announced in January<\/a> between Netflix and Warner that forbids Netflix from sending out any of the studio&#8217;s new releases for the first 28 days of its release is a &#8220;scheme to restrain trade.&#8221; She also states that, by not making available a number of high-profile new releases, her Netflix account has been devalued by the agreement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE FROM CONSUMERIST ON THE AGREEMENT:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/netflix-agrees-to-delay-warner-bros-new-dvds-for-28-days.html\" >Netflix Agrees To Delay Warner Bros. New DVDs For 28 Days<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/netflix-ceo-explains-why-they-made-the-28-day-delay-deal.html\" >Netflix CEO Explains Why They Made The 28-Day Delay Deal<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/%22Read more: http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2010\/03\/04\/2010-03-04_susan_uman_sues_netflix_for_making_subscibers_wait_28_days_for_newly_released_dv.html#ixzz0hF3rQDCl<br \/>\n&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>Susan Uman sues Netflix for making subscibers wait 28 days for newly released DVDs<\/a> [NY Daily News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone really surprised it came to this? A Netflix subscriber isn&#8217;t happy about having to wait 28 days for Warner Home Video movies to be made available on the video delivery service, so she&#8217;s filed a class action lawsuit. The plaintiff contends that a deal announced in January between Netflix and Warner that forbids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}