Re:Time to cancel my netflix account (Score 1)

You know, I have never been able to understand the rage some people feel about TiVo selling anonymous usage statistics to interested parties, or about them charging for their service. Have we really become so coddled that the mere idea of a company trying to cover their expenses and, gasp!, make some money, is now so preposterous to us? They are providing a service, and they want to make money in the process, so of course they'll want to charge for it: that's just how it works! The way I see it, if they didn't make this extra money selling this usage information, then their monthly fees would be even higher: I'd rather some other company partially subsidize their costs than us the consumers having to pay for it all. For instance, they have recently lowered the monthly payment if you have a second unit, and no doubt the reason they can afford to do so is precisely because they can somehow make up for this loss: if some other company wants to do that, that's great news for me! :-) Finally, can someone please logically explain to me just exactly is so horrible about TiVo selling anonymous usage information to interested parties? How could it possibly do me any harm for companies to know which shows I watch? If anything, it would be beneficial to me: this means that I am implicitly "voting" for my favorite shows, thus lowering the chances that they will be cancelled, and, in the worst case, simply making it more likely that the commercials they play during these shows are things I could marginally care about... again, I don't see the problem with that at all. As a subscriber of both TiVo and NetFlix, I think the marriage of the ideas is excellent (and is, in fact, one of the ways I thought TiVo could improve their service, by providing programming, be it movies or regular shows, on demand). I'm glad to see they will be actually implementing it. :-)