Well, you do pay to the ISP, but where is the money for the content provider then?
I really do not think that the current situation of internet financing (ISP-charging money/content providers-ad banners/AOL-Time - big conglomerate of both) is sustainable. I do hope for the situation, where if I like some piece of work( be it a nice essay, good software, whatever) I can easily, and that means sigle, max. couple of clicks send a small amount of money directly to the author.
What I do not want is aggregated "channels" with hefty subscriptions, without my control what gets aggregated.
I think that the future is somewhere along these lines:
Slashdot Mirror
They are being paid by you transferring as much data as possible. So they would prefer you to browse with images and stuff rather than plain text.
P.
Well, you do pay to the ISP, but where is the money for the content provider then?
I really do not think that the current situation of internet financing (ISP-charging money/content providers-ad banners/AOL-Time - big conglomerate of both) is sustainable. I do hope for the situation, where if I like some piece of work( be it a nice essay, good software, whatever) I can easily, and that means sigle, max. couple of clicks send a small amount of money directly to the author.
What I do not want is aggregated "channels" with hefty subscriptions, without my control what gets aggregated.
I think that the future is somewhere along these lines:
http://www.boswa.com/buskware/buskware.html
and not only for software, but more importantly for content sites.
I want control over whom I pay and I want to pay only after seeing the work/enjoying it.
P.