exactly. ill make this one short. the net wasn't designed for making money, it was designed for serving out information. i pay my $20 a month to get on, and i want my fucking information. ive seen posts saying that paying your ISP to even get on the internet somehow isn't paying for getting all the content. bullshit. i dont care if the microcharges don't add up to very much, i'm paying monthly to be able to get on to it, and im not going to pay another damn cent just to be able to use it. if you want to make money for serving out information, start up an ISP.
well, all the talk about charging for information will eventually lead to the end of the internet as we know it. just about all of us got addicted to the net because we can pay $20 a month to get on, and zap! theres everything. learn all you want, chat all you want, go where you want, share what you want, etc. remember how great it was way back in the day when the online population was mostly geeks and the net wasn't a huge corporatized money pit? geeks would spend time and money creating something just so everyone could have another cool feature to mess with on the net. just people sending them e-mail saying "wow! that's awesome! how did you do that? thanks!" was payment enough for them.
before you know it, it will be something like 15 cents for a web search, 50 cents a download, a few bucks an hour for chatting, a dollar for an answer to a question, 3 bucks an hour to run an FTP server, 5 bucks for an upgrade to the latest version of something...ugh. did anyone else but me shudder when they saw "Dr. Know" in AI? and, just think of all the arguments our stupid governments are going to get into over all this mess. we can't let this happen. we've got to do something. i don't know what, but we have to do it. fast.
please, people. just keep it free. i know it costs money to put information and stuff out there, but find another way to cover it; for the good of mankind. heheh. after all, it's only money:)
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exactly. ill make this one short. the net wasn't designed for making money, it was designed for serving out information. i pay my $20 a month to get on, and i want my fucking information. ive seen posts saying that paying your ISP to even get on the internet somehow isn't paying for getting all the content. bullshit. i dont care if the microcharges don't add up to very much, i'm paying monthly to be able to get on to it, and im not going to pay another damn cent just to be able to use it. if you want to make money for serving out information, start up an ISP.
well, all the talk about charging for information will eventually lead to the end of the internet as we know it. just about all of us got addicted to the net because we can pay $20 a month to get on, and zap! theres everything. learn all you want, chat all you want, go where you want, share what you want, etc. remember how great it was way back in the day when the online population was mostly geeks and the net wasn't a huge corporatized money pit? geeks would spend time and money creating something just so everyone could have another cool feature to mess with on the net. just people sending them e-mail saying "wow! that's awesome! how did you do that? thanks!" was payment enough for them. before you know it, it will be something like 15 cents for a web search, 50 cents a download, a few bucks an hour for chatting, a dollar for an answer to a question, 3 bucks an hour to run an FTP server, 5 bucks for an upgrade to the latest version of something...ugh. did anyone else but me shudder when they saw "Dr. Know" in AI? and, just think of all the arguments our stupid governments are going to get into over all this mess. we can't let this happen. we've got to do something. i don't know what, but we have to do it. fast. please, people. just keep it free. i know it costs money to put information and stuff out there, but find another way to cover it; for the good of mankind. heheh. after all, it's only money :)