Being in Canada, many of the Live benefits (e.g. Netflix) aren't even available here, which is a luxury that we pay a premium for. For us it is simply a gaming

Being in Canada, many of the Live benefits (e.g. Netflix) aren't even available here, which is a luxury that we pay a premium for. For us it is simply a gaming matchmaker for online play, and a way of buying grossly overpriced movie rentals (with 24 hour viewing periods from the moment you click play) and overpriced downloadable games, like a ghetto version of Steam. I can't believe I actually pay for the ability to overpay like this. Here's the best part -- some time back I bought Ghostbusters on Games on Demand. Somehow over the following months the install got deleted from the console, but that's okay: one of the big advantages of XBL Games on Demand is that if you buy a new Xbox, your hard drive crashes, you need to make space, etc, you can just redownload it when you want it again. So I navigated looking for it. But I couldn't find it. They had removed it from their catalog -- this is apparently a regular event for a wide range of titles -- which means that my virtual purchase is now forever gone and irretrievable. That's the last Games on Demand I'll be buying on XBL. And if you try to cancel the auto-renew that they surreptitiously enrolled you in...have fun. Xbox Live engages in the most atrocious hide-the-link behavior. It's incredibly shady for a company the size of Microsoft.