what's wrong with paying for content?
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| Author | Content |
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| tuxchick2 Jun 20, 2006 9:43 AM EDT |
Helios, I am confused. So your windoze/dell user pays to view a video. What's wrong with that? Even if it's a bad deal, people make bad deals all the time, like using check cashing services or paying five times the normal purchase price for living room set at Rent-a-Center. The Internet is a great medium for commercial transactions. Maybe I'm missing the point, but I don't see a problem here. |
| peragrin Jun 20, 2006 10:28 AM EDT |
I wouldn't mind if I could get say a PDF copy of my local newspaper optimized for reading on a screen(hopefully an e-ink display). The online versions just don't look right. They are to hard to read easily, not to mention being tied to a computer, or other battery draining device. |
| Bob_Robertson Jun 20, 2006 10:56 AM EDT |
TC2, agreed. Having a site offering content for a fee opens a market for lower- or no-fee sites. Neither is this "the Internet", it's a site. And no matter how many sites do charge for content, there is always room for sites that do not. |
| grouch Jun 20, 2006 11:21 AM EDT |
I share tuxchick2's confusion about this. It looks like either something very significant was left out of the article or the charge of 99 cents for a video is supposed to be considered catastrophic for the Web. |
| dinotrac Jun 20, 2006 1:21 PM EDT |
lions and tigers and 99 cents, oh my! |
| dcparris Jun 20, 2006 5:10 PM EDT |
> I wouldn't mind if I could get say a PDF copy of my local newspaper optimized for reading on a screen(hopefully an e-ink display). You mean, kind of like LXer? Sorry, I just couldn't resist. |
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