Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ
| Re: Ads? said by Anonymous  :Well while that's a major improvement over TV advertising it's still something I am not interested in. 90 sec of ads is 90 sec too much. I'd rather stick with low quality youtube videos than watch ads. YouTube is being hit with a lot of letters lately demanding that content get yanked... Hulu is a partnership of NBC Universal and News Corporation (FOX). So the episodes that get posted on there will stay there. Yes, there are advertisements, but you don't have to worry about the stuff getting yanked for copyright violations. Everyone is complaining about how the movie studios, etc. aren't doing enough to make their content more affordable, so here you have an up-and-coming site that isn't charging a DIME to watch anything, including full length movies, but you get 90 seconds of advertising in an hour... what more do you want? You want it for FREE and without ads? How are they supposed to make any money at all? Do you still not support the people behind the scenes who spent hours and hours and hours of their lives making the stuff so you could watch it? Now that these sites are starting to show up, and with ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, etc. making full episodes with 30 miniscule amounts of commercials available on their websites, I have no sympathy for people who have issues with their internet providers giving them crap because a complaint was filed. The RIAA is a totally different nightmare, but the TV studios are at least making an attempt, and you should give them a chance before totally discounting them because of a few commercials.
But some people aren't happy unless it's totally free. In which case, I wish you luck, because it's never, ever going to happen - legally at least. |
