People browsing "free" web content hate ads and hate paying subscription fees. The way ESPN360 does it is more or less transparent to the end user when the ISP signs with ESPN. Most ISPs aren't even raising their rates. Yet people are still complaining.
So how exactly are people who produce web content supposed to be paid anyway?
The user should be allowed to subscribe directly with the site in question.
Nobody should be forced to pay for something they don't want or need.
No company (ESPN) should be allowed to make an agreement with another company (ISP) to force their customers (ISP consumers) to pay for something that's not needed nor desired.
The user should be allowed to subscribe directly with the site in question.
Nobody should be forced to pay for something they don't want or need.
No company (ESPN) should be allowed to make an agreement with another company (ISP) to force their customers (ISP consumers) to pay for something that's not needed nor desired.
I agree with such a subscription model, but then people will be saying that the internet needs to be open and that charging for content over the internet is evil.
The user should be allowed to subscribe directly with the site in question.
Nobody should be forced to pay for something they don't want or need.
No company (ESPN) should be allowed to make an agreement with another company (ISP) to force their customers (ISP consumers) to pay for something that's not needed nor desired.
I agree with such a subscription model, but then people will be saying that the internet needs to be open and that charging for content over the internet is evil.
And yet the porn industry somehow manages to survive on exactly this format. How about "free" access to some porn sites based on this ESPN 360 model? Wouldn't that be fun? Don't tell me there is not enough consumer interest or that it's a niche product.
But that would actually be something people want and the ISP would charge $20/mo for it.
ESPN360 is utterly worthless. I saw the content and it is worse than the crap you find at 2:30AM on the deuce.
I was able to watch top 10 teams play college football games on ESPN 360 that were not available on any of the 400 channels I get on my TV. For college basketball and baseball, there are even more games that can be watch live. Maybe it's just worthless to you?
Then subscribers like YOU should be paying for it.
Did you read anything else I posted? I completely agree. That has been my position all along with ESPN 360. I want to be able to buy it, and not have my ISP be the only entity involved in the market influence of such products.
