braden
join:2001-12-12
Aliso Viejo, CA
|  You gotta love irony
CNN article printed today:
»www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/0···dex.html
It was written by the Associated Press, but it's funny that CNN chose to run it. |
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gss4w
join:2002-02-25
Charlottesville, VA | I wonder what they think of the fact that 80% of the people responding to their poll question, "Do you currently pay for online content?" responded with, "No, and I won't." |
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Baine25
@207.30.x.x
| When you begin to add up the total costs of subscription after subscription it easy to realize that taking a few classes in programming is far cheaper. Why programming you ask....learn a few hacker skills and hell just steal the content you want. Thats what everyone does with movies, songs, software etc. etc. anyway. I would much rather spend countless hours online searching for free content until my eyes bled than give another single f-ing penny to corporations that offer crap at the price of filet mingon and try to convince us that it really doesnt taste like shit. I've grown sick to death of companies that refuse to back their products simply because they dont have to, what are you gonna do....sue em, for a $10, $20 or even $50 item, I dont think so. So it is not nescesary for them to provide quality because if crap is all that is for sale and nothing even worth crap is free whatcha gonna do...... |
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WildGod
God Is Dead
Premium
join:2002-01-30
NYC
| Just wondering. If we do pay for access are we still bombarded by advertising and popups and pop unders?
Hmmmmm seems to me regular TV has been free forever so why would I pay to see CNN clips? Ill either watch the local news or watch CNN on my cable.
Besides how can you tell me they are losing money? How can CNN.com lose money? The streaming video is from footage they already have and the news stories are already prepared for the day. Such crybabies. Im so sick of companies complaining they are losing money. They are not losing money, they just arent making more than they did last year. Ill give CNN a clue, fire Larry King and his bloated salary which he doesnt deserve (hes the biggest moron i have ever heard speak not to mention a criminal) and there would be more than enough to cover the cost of CNN.com for the next century.
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AOL DSL SUCKS
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xrobertcmx
Premium
join:2001-06-18
Sterling, VA
clubs:  | The only actual cost I can think of is moving it to html format and bandwidth...but the compensation should be the the adverts they dump all over the page. |
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