I'm not gonna spam and put my referral code, but as officially billz payer I'm inclined to say this. If you refer 25 people to the free game at Jackpot.com you get a free Palm Pilot. Billz Payer Out
I don't understand what your feelings towards these programs are. Are you saying we're bad bad whores for taking these 'free' offers? To me it's a win-win situation.
I think you had the right idea with your post, but you missed what Gnutella gains from this. Gnutella isn't getting any money or direct profit from people leeching MP3's from people using Gnutella, and neither are any of its users. We can agree on this. But is this bad for Gnutella?
They don't get anything, however, what this does, is make Gnutella a bit more popular and give more people (bastards or not) access to the information there. The same way ads on AllAdvantage give information about web sites. Nobody's making any (or much) money from the banner ads on the top of Slashdot or the ads on my AllAdvantage banner right now.
However, if someone asks me where I go to buy shoes online, the first place I'll go is Altavista Shopping.com or Dealtime.com because those are the ones I see ads for constantly. This reaction will last into all of my life until some other company floods my environment.
What you're renting out here isn't screen space or bandwidth; if there was a way for these companies to not take up time, screen space, or bandwidth they would. What you're renting out here is brain space. And since I don't think there's a limit of the stuff you can store in there, I'm very happy to get crap crammed in there. Some of it might be useful.
I'm not sure that this better-than-free information will pay for your cable until more bandwidth is popular and TV is less regulated, but you can sort of get paid for listening to your radio or cell phone, and of course they can pay yo billz!
Boo hoo hoo, what are we going to do, our 3rd amendment rights are being trampled on.. I better go whine about it here because I'm very very dumb and like to whine about completely unrelated stories with whatever I hear rush limbaugh and ollie north tell me on the radio 6 hours a day.. boo hoo hoo PS I was being sarcastic
Everyone knows artsy musician types will never use Linux... they're busy using their apples or Microsoft Bob... why not spend time and money developing software for these platforms instead of on an archaic OS that's pretty much dead?
In case you haven't noticed, Linux is a sucky OS and nobody uses it besides readers of this website.. the day a commercial game is released for Linux is the day Jesus comes back from the dead and sends all sinners to hell where they belong
I have reported you to the proper authorities including your cable modem provider, the president of slashdot.org and the prime minister of the Internet. Have a good day.
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I think you had the right idea with your post, but you missed what Gnutella gains from this. Gnutella isn't getting any money or direct profit from people leeching MP3's from people using Gnutella, and neither are any of its users. We can agree on this. But is this bad for Gnutella?
They don't get anything, however, what this does, is make Gnutella a bit more popular and give more people (bastards or not) access to the information there. The same way ads on AllAdvantage give information about web sites. Nobody's making any (or much) money from the banner ads on the top of Slashdot or the ads on my AllAdvantage banner right now.
However, if someone asks me where I go to buy shoes online, the first place I'll go is Altavista Shopping.com or Dealtime.com because those are the ones I see ads for constantly. This reaction will last into all of my life until some other company floods my environment.
What you're renting out here isn't screen space or bandwidth; if there was a way for these companies to not take up time, screen space, or bandwidth they would. What you're renting out here is brain space. And since I don't think there's a limit of the stuff you can store in there, I'm very happy to get crap crammed in there. Some of it might be useful.
I'm not sure that this better-than-free information will pay for your cable until more bandwidth is popular and TV is less regulated, but you can sort of get paid for listening to your radio or cell phone, and of course they can pay yo billz!
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Excuse me, but I think I'll take my business to MSNBC where they don't use fake words like 'cyberpornography'...
You whine and whine and whine when me and my friends spam you all how to avoid it, and then you whine and whine about the problem...
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Radio is dead. Get on TV or buy some banner ads or don't expect people to listen to your crazy fundamentalist dogma.
I wouldn't say stuff like that, or else the next Mars Lander will "accidently" crash into your house :(
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