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"Netflix Beats BitTorrent's Bandwidth": http://bit.ly/iHh7WM

And who says the public doesn't want subscription services...

Who wants some Blockbuster stock?

The public doesn't know what it wants in the future.  It's the obligation of technologists and content providers to bring them there.

Streaming movies on your iPad...it's a beautiful thing.

Maybe music subscription streaming services were too early.  Maybe they were crippled by an industry that refused to actively license them.  That doesn't mean they won't win in the future.  The public rented videotapes, then bought DVDs, then rented DVDs and are now streaming movies.  The public is malleable.

But music services have an advantage over Netflix.  You don't have to stream all the content, 2,000+ tracks live on the handheld, just like you own them, with no dropouts, no cloud connection necessary.

Netflix needed broadband and the ability to stream to your TV to break through.  iPad streaming is just icing on the cake.

Rhapsody started before broadband was ubiquitous.  Now high speed connections are de rigueur.  Stream music to people.  And know that it's not about streaming on the desktop, music is free on the desktop, via YouTube (however unauthorized), it's about streaming to the handheld.  Is the music industry gonna screw up once again, and allow sideloading and cloud delivery of what you have already purchased to its economic detriment?

Looks like it.

Idiots.