It was free for a bit, I had let my Gold membership expire, which gave me a Silver, and Netflix worked for about 2 weeks before they required the Gold memberships. I think this is in poor taste. If I bought the console, pay for a Netflix subscription, and pay to have Internet, why does Microsoft need money for this transaction as well?

Sounds more like Toshiba said, "Hey, we have this lot of bad drive" why don't we classify them as wipe feature enabled.