
Netflix is back up, but ratings are broken
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:20 AM EDT
Article Source: CNET.comBeing a Netflix subscriber, I had been checking the site all day to see if it is back up and running. There has been coverage of this throughout the day and the site is finally back up, but I have noticed a fairly glaring problem: Netflix's movie ratings are broken.
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