Chris Breen over at Macworld left a rented Spidey 3 paused on his nano overnight. It passed the expiration date. But, he hit play and it kept going. Here's the nugget: When he clicked menu, (rightly) expecting to get a movie expired message, he got this: "This rental has expired. You can resume to finish your movie." He was given the choice to delete or resume the flick, effectively adding extending its life beyond that of a fruitfly. And that's all we really want.

Have you guys fallen into the situation with the same options on any other iPod? What about on iTunes itself? Let us know in the comments. Or any other dirty little tricks to stretch that oh-so-tiny window. [Macworld]

And while the chatter level is fever pitch, the signal-to-noise ratio is infinitesimally low right now. So while it's possible Warner's signed on, the safer side of speculation falls on Fox and Disney—in addition to lasting, constant buzz, Fox has historically been pretty tight with iTunes. Disney—well, when has Disney not played ball with Apple? [Bloomberg via AppleInsider]