Comment Re:How did they lose a slam dunk? (Score 1) 18
I used to have many magazine subscriptions.
They would each mail me a reminder to renew my subscription.
If I sent them a check my subscription would continue. If I didn't send them a check my subscription would end.
I didn't have auto- anything. I didn't have to call to cancel.
The same went for when I was a paperboy. You pay for your week or you stop getting papers. When you remember to pay you start getting papers again.
I think this is how subscriptions have worked for hundreds of years, with auto-renew on a payment card developing in the past couple decades.
Without a contractual definition the corpus of caselaw would very likely date to throughout the history of the country.