A Netflix Lawsuit? Really?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume we all have our issues with Netflix.  Last month I held on to a blu-ray of Zombieland until they finally took (500) Days of Summer off of the 'Long Wait' status it was stuck on in my queue since December.  Enough was enough. 

Then I sent it back and they sent me Public Enemies instead.  Sigh.

I'm also going to assume that not many people are loving the deal Netflix recently made with Warner Bros that prevents them from mailing the studio's new releases until 28 days after their release.  I don't love it either, but from a business standpoint, it does make sense.  DVD sales have slowed, and this gives them the opportunity to try and boost sales before making the movies available for rental.  If it works, I'm sure the other studios will be making similar deals too. 

But no one seems to be angrier about these rules than Manhattan's Susan Uman, who according to the NY Daily News, is filing a class action lawsuit against Netflix for "decreasing the value of her Netflix subscription."

One of her lawyers even went so far to claim that Netflix customers are being harmed by these new rules.

Harmed?  Are they joking?

I'll admit I was annoyed when it took me 10 minutes to figure out why Where The Wild Things Are wouldn't be available until March 30th.  But harmed?  Of course not.  

I have lots of movies in my queue I could watch in the meantime.  Hell, I still have blu-rays I got for Christmas that I haven't watched yet.  I just got all three seasons of the original Star Trek TV series, thanks to an awesome Best Buy sale.

So these new Netflix rules, while again, annoying, do give me the opportunity to catch up on other movies and TV shows that I also want to see. 

If you're any kind of a real movie fan, it's really tough to be starved for entertainment.  And if you have the kind of money where you can just throw it at a lawsuit like this, you probably also have the extra cash to just blind buy The Box (yes, the The Box was one of the movies listed in the suit) if you're so desperate to see it as soon as it's released.  The whole thing just seems silly to me.