Well, basic utility service isn't such a good comparator: in fact it's on the opposite end of the spectrum from a magazine subscription (which is essentially a

Well, basic utility service isn't such a good comparator: in fact it's on the opposite end of the spectrum from a magazine subscription (which is essentially a fluff purchase, in the vast majority of consumer cases). In fact with gas providers (or at least my own) are required to keep service running even in the presence of events which might normally trigger a cancel in other commercial contexts (customer in default for multiple months, not reachable or even apparently "dead" according to public records, etc). At least until the warm season starts. Magazine subscriptions are at least in grey area, as far as this goes.