Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Monday, August 03, 2009


When I clicked on the second page of Dick "Synergy" Corliss's pointless diatribe about Netflix a Netflix pop-up ad popped up. Really Dick, aren't your bosses carrying their toadying a bit too far?

Getting movies by mail is, Netflix hopes, just a stage between the Blockbuster era of video stores and the imminent streaming of movies. You can already get 12,000 Netflix titles on your TV (if you have a Blu-ray player or spring for a $100 Netflix box). So, O.K., soon there will be no more waiting for DVDs. But it'll come at a price. You'll be what the online corporate culture wants you to be: a passive, inert receptacle for its products.

There's a line in Thomas Dekker's great play The Honest Whore II that applies here: "Past shame, past penitence."

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