[jefftk]

Sony shouldn't have sold shows to their customers without first negotiating contracts with the rightsholders ensuring Sony wouldn't have to renege.

[BizarroLand]

And really, Netflix screwed the pooch on this one right at the start by not making licensing rights irrevocable.

They could have said, "we'll pay $0.XXX per stream" and media companies would have said, "yay, more money for old crap we don't care about any more" and that would have been that.

But because they didn't make it irrevocable, companies have been rug pulling customers ever since