I tend to agree. It's my opinion that if the media companies would have put half the effort into developing and implementing a fairly priced and reliable (needs to be - broadband is still pretty unreliable in a lot of places) streaming media solution (sort of like pay-per-view but over a broadband connection instead) that have have with their "whack-a-mole" policy with the P2P'ers, the majority of the folks would signing up with them instead of downloading poor quality partial movies/mp3 from a P2P site (I know I would.
I have downloaded a few mp3's, but found it took too much effort on my part to get a good complete copy of what I wanted. I'd rather pay a few bucks to get it knowing that I'll be delivered a complete high quality copy in the background while I spend my time doing what I want instead of nursing downloads.
Paying for the right to view/listem to the media (pay-per-view/subscriber fee) then having to pay to transport it (bandwidth) will effectively kill streaming media for me. I'll buy the DVD locally instead.
Well, under your theory, using my cable connection to order something from Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble constitutes a "business purpose" (with B&N or Amazon instead of my employer), so therefore I would need to get a business account for this type of usage.
You're correct - it's not rocket science. I pay for access to the "Internet" and should be able to use it as I see fit.
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I tend to agree. It's my opinion that if the media companies would have put half the effort into developing and implementing a fairly priced and reliable (needs to be - broadband is still pretty unreliable in a lot of places) streaming media solution (sort of like pay-per-view but over a broadband connection instead) that have have with their "whack-a-mole" policy with the P2P'ers, the majority of the folks would signing up with them instead of downloading poor quality partial movies/mp3 from a P2P site (I know I would.
I have downloaded a few mp3's, but found it took too much effort on my part to get a good complete copy of what I wanted. I'd rather pay a few bucks to get it knowing that I'll be delivered a complete high quality copy in the background while I spend my time doing what I want instead of nursing downloads.
Paying for the right to view/listem to the media (pay-per-view/subscriber fee) then having to pay to transport it (bandwidth) will effectively kill streaming media for me. I'll buy the DVD locally instead.
Well, under your theory, using my cable connection to order something from Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble constitutes a "business purpose" (with B&N or Amazon instead of my employer), so therefore I would need to get a business account for this type of usage.
You're correct - it's not rocket science. I pay for access to the "Internet" and should be able to use it as I see fit.