Question: What are Netflix' barriers to imitation? 

Answer: I think they have "first mover advantage"...they were the first, so people associate the service with their name. It's similar to when Xerox first started. People just associated the process of copying paper with the name Xerox, and so other company's had trouble entering the market.\n\nIn this same way, people associate renting DVD's online with Netflix.
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