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The domain name moviedvdrental.com sounds like a relic today—a digital fossil from an era when "streaming" was what rivers did and "buffering" was a term reserved for chemistry labs. But for five glorious years, between 2002 and 2007, that URL was the kingdom of a man named Arthur P. Henderson. The coup de grâce arrived not from a