Netflix messes up

摘要

LAST December Jeff Bewkes, Time War-jner's boss, sneered that Netflix threatened media about as much as the Albanian army threatened world peace. Few were fooled. Netflix, which hires out d vds through the post as well as streaming films and television through the internet, had already impoverished Hollywood by training people to rent dvds instead of buying them. It was starting to lure people away from pay-television. But then the army began marching in the wrong direction, and its general shot himself in the foot.