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Is Netflix Good for Hollywood?

Its friends in the business might soon outnumber its foes as the subscription giant inhales content at breathtaking speed.

Disgusted that a video rental store raked him over the coals for returning a movie late, Reed Hastings created Netflix. Seventeen million subscribers later, some people probably wish a clerk would have just refunded the man his 40 bucks.