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I Have Seen the Enemy, and it is Netflix

Or so says Time Magazine critic Richard Corliss, who might have overreacted a bit to the closure of his local video store in his new piece, "Why Netflix Stinks." In addition to walking readers through the checkout-and-wait process most of us have experienced for seven or eight years now, there's the concern that renting movies and processing other media from home makes you "what the online corporate culture wants you to be: a passive, inert receptacle for its products." Unless, of course, you decide to share his plaint via blog, Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, or another electronic exchange, in which case your discriminating, thoughtful media consumption is to be saluted. I think? [Time]