is that everyone's a cheap bastard. So unlike in the Microsoft world, where PHB types gladly bend over to pay more and more every year for "select" and other licensing schemes, in Linux land buyers think "Free as in el cheapo!" and don't support the developers. So companies like this go under, as we have seen time and time again.
Just like slashdot. Only two percent of readers subscribe. Two percent! Do the other 98 percent just think they can get it all for free forever? That the bandwidth they consume is just there? Two percent. Ridiculous.
Look, cheapskate, who cares if Britney Spears and her MTV sisters get most of the money from music purchases? They need to cover much higher production and distribution costs than the independent artists who often post on slashdot about their musical genius and deep-seated hatred for the RIAA.
Get it through your thick head: music costs money. Sometimes millions of dollars to write, rehearse, record, master, and distribute A SINGLE ALBUM! How do you expect this to be paid when leeches like you share and share alike?
It's the tragedy of the commons all over again. When the music dies, and the artists go silent because they have to become tech-industry middle managers, then what will you think of your little Fight-The-Power move?
I say pay up and buy the damn albums already. The music you save may be your own.
People - so what if you can't get someone else's music? Just buy some CDs, or pay for some MP3s from emusic, or listen to some free-as-in-cheapskate shoutcast streams. TANSTAAFL.
Dude, RTFA. They have made it VERY clear that they are LOSING money. Would you prefer it if slashdot just quit, because they can't pay for the bandwidth necessary to post comments such as yours?
Maybe if/. just dropped ACs, they would save enough bandwidth. Whatcha think about that?
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Definitely a reason to subscribe!
Just like slashdot. Only two percent of readers subscribe. Two percent! Do the other 98 percent just think they can get it all for free forever? That the bandwidth they consume is just there? Two percent. Ridiculous.
Anyway, th
PPPoE sucks ass.
Get it through your thick head: music costs money. Sometimes millions of dollars to write, rehearse, record, master, and distribute A SINGLE ALBUM! How do you expect this to be paid when leeches like you share and share alike?
It's the tragedy of the commons all over again. When the music dies, and the artists go silent because they have to become tech-industry middle managers, then what will you think of your little Fight-The-Power move?
I say pay up and buy the damn albums already. The music you save may be your own.
People - so what if you can't get someone else's music? Just buy some CDs, or pay for some MP3s from emusic, or listen to some free-as-in-cheapskate shoutcast streams. TANSTAAFL.
Maybe if /. just dropped ACs, they would save enough bandwidth. Whatcha think about that?