Quarter a track, yeah! You only pay about a dollar a track now, on CD, and digital music would be...well, just a LITTLE cheaper to distribute. The only costs would be recording and advertising--no manufacturing, whatsoever.
Anything that makes the net exclusive--at all--is bad, bad, bad. I mean, making it so that people in poor countries can't afford to surf the net is just bloody wrong. We may just be talking pennies--or fractions of pennies--per page, but it would still add up, to the point where some people jsut couldn't afford it. Not to mention that if you didn't own a credit card, well, sorry, no internet for you. But mostly, it's just the idea. Paying for the net--ugh. That's the point of the internet--it's free. That's what makes it better than your local newspaper. It's free, and it's FREE. Damn, I hate this idea!
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Quarter a track, yeah! You only pay about a dollar a track now, on CD, and digital music would be...well, just a LITTLE cheaper to distribute. The only costs would be recording and advertising--no manufacturing, whatsoever.
Anything that makes the net exclusive--at all--is bad, bad, bad. I mean, making it so that people in poor countries can't afford to surf the net is just bloody wrong. We may just be talking pennies--or fractions of pennies--per page, but it would still add up, to the point where some people jsut couldn't afford it. Not to mention that if you didn't own a credit card, well, sorry, no internet for you. But mostly, it's just the idea. Paying for the net--ugh. That's the point of the internet--it's free. That's what makes it better than your local newspaper. It's free, and it's FREE. Damn, I hate this idea!