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I don't think that would work here. It would be like a TV station claiming they didn't have to broadcast the caption stream because they were just retransmitti
by illumin8 15y ago
I don't think that would work here. It would be like a TV station claiming they didn't have to broadcast the caption stream because they were just retransmitting content from a media company. Bottom line is the ADA says you must broadcast captions.
- jamesbritt 15y agoIt would be like a TV station claiming they didn't have to broadcast the caption stream because they were just retransmitting content from a media company. Sure. But I've never thought of Netflix as a TV station any more than YouTube is a TV station. They don't do scheduling, they don't have an obligation to carry certain kinds of material (as, I think, TV stations must) and they aren't using limited, licensed bandwidth. I see NetFlix as a video rental store, like Blockbuster. They've just abstracted the "get a disk, put it into a device, press play" thing by allowing me to use their servers as my DVD player (more or less). Also, if Wikipedia is correct, "Title III of the ADA requires that public facilities, such as hospitals, bars, shopping centers and museums (but not movie theaters), provide access to verbal information on televisions, films or slide shows." If anything NetFlix may be more of a movie theatre than a TV station.