| Businesses are SUPPOSED to make money. Of course it is about making money. Businesses are SUPPOSED to make money.
What these bill by the byte folks don't yet understand is that is it also about FAIRNESS. When everyone is billed by the byte, then everyone will have to publish the figures on how much they charge for a byte. At that point the consumer will be able to make an informed choice and my grandma will not be paying for some tenny bopper's file sharing.
There is nothing wrong with disclosure or fair pricing and there is nothing wrong with a business being about making money. That's why we call it capitalism.
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join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
kudos:2 | Their TV service is terrible, channels don't work, especially HD channels - they freeze, or blackout for minutes at a time. They don't want people downloading all their TV content online and that's exactly what I'm doing. |
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| Exactly. They see all of us downloading what WE want on YouTube, Hulu, P2P, Usenet, whatever..and realize we are not buying their reality-TV TRASH anymore. Pay-per-view or otherwise.
Ultimately this is about control. If Rocky loses this fight (and I have my suspicions that he will), he will go out of business. To reiterate what others have implied: the future is now. |
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Fireblade
join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
kudos:2 Reviews:
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| said by GyroCaptain:Exactly. They see all of us downloading what WE want on YouTube, Hulu, P2P, Usenet, whatever..and realize we are not buying their reality-TV TRASH anymore. Pay-per-view or otherwise. Ultimately this is about control. If Rocky loses this fight (and I have my suspicions that he will), he will go out of business. To reiterate what others have implied: the future is now. That's right, the only thing their TV service is good for is CNN and local news. That doesn't justify the $80 or so they're charging per month. Don't get me started on their horrible VOD and HD lineup. |
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