As they should be. Just as vendors for other platforms should be happy to release solutions that work for theirs.

Also, it's worth pointing out that the gear you "want" them to have can easily be the gear you "expect" them to have. When running heroics, I'd sometimes get complains that I didn't have any "tier" gear or other epic dungeon drops (other than my tanking sword and shield). Everything else I'd wear my area gear, with the shoulders switched to PVP shoulders filled with tanking gems and enchantments (switched a few other things out for enchantments also). The point being, I had spent the time gaining PVP points to get duplicate items and gem/enchant them for tanking, during a periods were many others would hang around Shat and try to get a group that would carry them through in the hopes they'd get some gear out of it.

Properly researched and with the right gems & enchantments, I comfortably tanked all the heroics and a few 25 player instances BEFORE I started to see any of the "expected" warrior tank gear drop (and when it rained it poured, thankfully). During that period, though, there was often someone in a pug who'd criticize me about my choice in gear, and it was always someone who'd never played an end game warrior (and they were usually pretty green to end game).

For example, I never told a priest or a warlock how to properly gear and spec (unless that player was joining one of my arena teams), as I felt I had no lecturing someone about a class I didn't play. If a pug kept wiping, it was easy enough to tell where the problem was, and I'd try to commit that player to memory as someone not to group with again.

As a main tank (retired), my life would have been absolute hell without at least a decent aggro meter. DPS is a fine thing to measure, but in the actual boss fights threat is the more important aspect. Especially for fights where tanks have to be rotated in and out, not knowing how much threat individual players were generating would have lead to the (stronger) DPS holding back most of the time, and occasionally getting one-shotted other times.

Sure, as a warrior I could always intercept then challenge when a DPS accidentally (or idiotically) pulled aggo from whichever tank is up, but if tanking that specific boss wasn't my roll at the time it would throw things into chaos at least. With a threat meter, we were able to remind people to ease up a bit when they threaten to draw aggro, and at the same time get a better picture of which tanks aren't performing as well as they should be.

Get a movement within their customer base and employ the classic school scenario where a rule doesn't work if it has to be applied to everyone. Start filing tens of thousands of DMCA take down notices for suspected violations. If their policy is as described, cutting service to that many people will put a direct stop to it.

You have it backwards; the music industry equivalent of Blockbuster already went out of business: Tower Records. It's Blockbuster who should have taken notice.

Tax dollars at work.

I don't think the founder is shy about discussing exactly that. There's a reason he called it "Netflix" rather than something that indicates movies in the mail. Streaming just wasn't viable when Netflix started business, but it's clearly going entirely in that direction.

One can say that, but in 1995, B&N was a bookstore franchise while Amazon was an online company that decided books was the best product to start off selling. It's easy to miss the boat when the other party helps build it.

Two years actually seems pretty quick for B&N to get online, especially if one considers the growth in Internet usage over that time period. 1995 didn't exactly present a huge market for a company that had no e-commerce division to invest in, but the smaller Internet company Amazon.com demonstrated over those two years of market growth that it was viable, reducing the risk to B&N.

I suggest that it was the next 13 years of business choices while both sites were active that determined which is more dominant today.

Additionally, Blockbuster should have seen something of itself in Tower Records going out of business in 2006.

There's no "however" involved. In the US, one is innocent and remains so until proven guilty (so goes the justice system's tagline). That means accused == innocent, and not guilty == innocent.

Notice I didn't use the triple equals.

Netflix has plenty of TV shows available for streaming. Certainly not most of the newest shows, or the shows that expect to bring in large amounts of money through DVD sales or rentals. Nevertheless, the model is there. With my Netflix subscription I've streamed quite a few TV shows (many in HD) for less than $10 a month. Perhaps more importantly, these aren't rentals. I can watch them as often as I please, without time constraints.

At the same time, iTunes has always seems WAY over priced when it comes to TV shows. I watch TV shows at least once a week, all through online sources, and all legitimately. Hulu or network-specific sites are all right for that, but I'd obviously like a larger selection, ideally with more shows in HD. If the online video advertising model doesn't support the costs involved then I'd be willing to pay to have that access, but via the Netflix model, not the iTunes model.