Netflix suing Blockbuster

On Tuesday of last week, Netflix filed a suit against Blockbuster, accusing Blockbuster of infringing on two patents owned by Netflix. Blockbuster has commented that the suit is without merit and will fight the suit. According to the article Blockbuster says Netflix suit without merit, Blockbuster officials say that Netflix did not invent the concept of renting movies over the Internet and that a rental service having a queue system is "common practice."