* The series was added to Netflix streaming on September 2, 2011.

On November 23, 2010, it was reported that Google was interested in purchasing the digital rights to the Miramax library to improve the premium content offerings on YouTube, and compete with similar services such as Hulu and Netflix.

Netflix streams both series to subscribers ( as of August 2011, the series was no longer available to view via streaming ).

Netflix was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, who previously had worked together at Pure Software, along with Mitch Lowe.

Netflix spokesperson Joris Evers indicated that the PAC was not set up to support SOPA and PIPA, tweeting that the intent was to " engage on issues like net neutrality, bandwidth caps, UBB and VPPA.

In October 2011, it was announced that Netflix would be launching in the UK and Ireland in early 2012.

Netflix was officially launched as a streaming-only service in the United Kingdom and Ireland on January 9, 2012, priced at £ 5. 99 a month in the UK and € 6. 99 a month in Ireland.

Netflix was sued by KamberLaw L. L. C.

In September 2004, a consumer class action lawsuit, Frank Chavez v. Netflix, Inc., was brought against Netflix in San Francisco Superior Court.

Critics, however, have suggested this was just another Netflix attempt at throttling.

They had three children, Alfred, Jr., a pioneering investor, two-time winner of the Bermuda Race and head of the winning America's Cup syndicate in 1977 ; Henry, head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Farnsworth, a physician and professor at Brandeis ( Farnsworth's grandson was Reed Hastings, co-founder of Netflix ).

Blockbuster was the exclusive rental chain for The Weinstein Company movies since January 1, 2007, although due to the First Sale Doctrine, other rental stores and online DVD rental-by-mail companies, like Netflix, could still rent DVDs released by The Weinstein Company.

This scene was not cut from the version that is distributed in high definition using the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Video, the print sold on iTunes, or shown on Netflix, or the Blu-ray or HD DVD versions released by Paramount.

Brewster was born in the UK but lives and works in Silicon Valley, as a front-end engineer and API evangelist for Netflix.

One of the key events that energized research in recommender systems was the Netflix prize.

" I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired ," said Hastings.

" Netflix was originally a single rental service, but the subscription model was one of a few ideas we had — so there was no Aha!

As Netflix grew, the company began getting noticed for its innovative management practices -- the results of the culture Hastings was exploring -- called " Freedom and Responsibility.

In June 2007, Rose Einstein, former Vice President, Advertising Sales for Netflix and 25-year veteran of Reed Business Media, was named to the newly created role of Vice President, Associate Publisher to oversee all sales and business development for The Reporter.

* Through the merger with Viacom, they gained U. S. rights to the majority of the Cannon Films library ( except Lifeforce, where some of said rights are owned by Sony via its initial US theatrical distribution by TriStar, once posting it on the website Crackle ), owned for other media by MGM ( who also posted Lifeforce on Hulu and Netflix ).

The series became available for instant streaming via Netflix during the Summer of 2011.

All eight seasons and 24: Redemption are also available for purchase or rental on iTunes, Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand, and the Zune Marketplace.

On March 25, 2011, Miramax entered licensing talks with various digital premium services, including Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Hulu, for digital distribution of the former company's film library.

( This episode, in three parts, is available for view on YouTube, and in its entirety on streaming Netflix.

By 2011, the total digital revenue for Netflix reached $ 1. 5 billion.

Netflix also operates an online affiliate program which has helped it to build online sales for DVD rentals.

Then, in October 2011, Netflix announced that it would retain its DVD service under the name Netflix and would not, in fact, create Qwikster for that purpose.

Despite the losses, earnings for Netflix jumped 63 percent for the third quarter of 2011.

" The hacktivist group Anonymous called for a boycott of Netflix following the news.

According to a 2011 report by Sandvine, Netflix is the biggest source of North American web traffic, accounting for 24. 71 % of aggregated traffic.

In October 2005, Netflix proposed a settlement for those who had enrolled as a paid Netflix member prior to January 15, 2005.

After Trial Lawyers for Public Justice filed a challenge to the proposed settlement and the Federal Trade Commission filed an amicus brief urging the rejection or modification of the settlement, Netflix offered to alter the settlement terms requiring customers to actively approve any continuation after the free month.

You and Netflix agree that the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and / or the California Superior Court for the County of Santa Clara shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute between you and Netflix relating in any way to the Netflix service or Web site or these Terms of Use.

The Netflix website at one time featured a list of titles " Releasing This Week " ( RTW ) that enabled customers to easily view new DVDs the company planned for rental release each week.

On April 4, 2006, Netflix filed a patent infringement lawsuit in which it demanded a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Blockbuster's online DVD rental subscription program violated two patents held by Netflix.

The HD format is currently commercially available through Blu-ray, or by download such as iTunes, Netflix, and Xbox Live.

Netflix began online streaming of five of the six Star Trek television series on July 1, 2011 ; Deep Space Nine followed on October 1.

CBS Television Distribution currently holds rights to the series ; it is ( as of 2011 ) currently broadcast on CBS. com's video archives and is not broadcast on any linear channel but is currently available via Netflix streaming ( as of November 2011.

The 1970s saw new business models from FedEx and Toys R Us ; the 1980s from Blockbuster, Home Depot, Intel, and Dell Computer ; the 1990s from Southwest Airlines, Netflix, eBay, Amazon. com, and Starbucks.

On September 6, 2011, Miramax announced that hundreds of its film titles were available digitally in Latin American territories including Brazil, Mexico and Argentina under a multi-year agreement with Netflix.

On November 16, 2011, Miramax announced a multi-year digital licensing agreement to stream a broad range of films to Netflix members in the U. K. and Ireland, and on November 21, 2011, Brazil's NetMovies and Miramax entered into a multi-year movie streaming agreement.

There is also speculation that Dish Network might purchase Sprint or Clearwire CEO Charles Ergen plans on adding wireless internet and mobile video services that can compete with Netflix and cable companies.

As Blockbuster had agreements that allow it to receive DVDs 28 days earlier than Netflix, the new service could be major competition.

Computer users must use the Netflix player and Windows Media Player 11.

However, the phrase is heard in the Blu-ray release of Season 2 as well as the version streamed by Netflix, but with noticeably different sound quality to the rest of Serling's narration.

In 2011, the U. S. online movie services Netflix and HuluPlus began streaming the film in its original 99 minute version.