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Somewhat unrelated, but I often feel like the world should be much more "on-demand" than it is. Right now, I can watch some movies on Netflix online - a curated set of movies that Netflix has managed to secure permission for. Yet, with their physical disc service, it was possible to get a much vaster collection of movies mailed to you (thanks to the first sale doctrine in the U.S.), despite the fact that delivering movies online should be much, much easier.
There are other examples of this (no inter-library loans for ebooks, having to view ebooks in a special reading room rather than at home, etc.), but you get my point. It seems strange that we're moving to digital goods, but creating a permission culture that makes those digital goods less convenient in some ways than the physical goods they're replacing (or supplementing).
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