Whoa there, fella. The internet definitely existed without ads to begin with, and I dare say some of us preferred it that way.
The fact is, the Internet has changed since the days where ads were few and far between. Far more bandwidth is being used, even if all you take into account is the number of hosts attached to the Internet, and therefore the larger number of potential views. If you start to factor in the increased use of streaming video, and annoying flash animation, and people who just have to have marilyn manson midis playing on their weblog, it just isn't financially viable to have an ad-free internet anymore.
If you removed the ability for webmasters to cover costs with ads, the Internet as it is now would not exist. Basically, there would be three types of sites. Pay sites that provide services that are useful enough that people are willing to pay for them, free sites run by people who have money to burn (mainly corporate sites), and sites that no one ever goes to, like old-school THIS IS ME AND MY DOG IS OVER THERE personal sites. Sites like Slashdot would cease to exist in their current formats.
Hopefully I managed to sort of halfway get a point across here, I tried really hard!!!
But maybe you were just being nostalgic for the old days, and not saying that it could still be that way. Then, I guess I'm just an asshole.
Poems are by their nature a written artform - if you publish someone's poems, you are publishing the entirety of their work, and I dont think that anyone would dispute that that is wrong.
In my opinion, things are a little bit more hazy for song lyrics. For one thing, a lot of what you will find on lyrics sites is people guessing at what the artist might be singing. So you're getting someone's interpretation of a work rather than the work itself.
Then things get even more hazy with lyrics copied out of liner notes. But even if that's illegal, I can't see how it's something that's worth objecting to - as an artist, it's much easier to get any message you have across if people can actually tell what you're saying.
Slashdot Mirror
Anybody feels like taking this challenge?
That would be sort of like running into a Wall.
Whoa there, fella. The internet definitely existed without ads to begin with, and I dare say some of us preferred it that way.
The fact is, the Internet has changed since the days where ads were few and far between. Far more bandwidth is being used, even if all you take into account is the number of hosts attached to the Internet, and therefore the larger number of potential views. If you start to factor in the increased use of streaming video, and annoying flash animation, and people who just have to have marilyn manson midis playing on their weblog, it just isn't financially viable to have an ad-free internet anymore.
If you removed the ability for webmasters to cover costs with ads, the Internet as it is now would not exist. Basically, there would be three types of sites. Pay sites that provide services that are useful enough that people are willing to pay for them, free sites run by people who have money to burn (mainly corporate sites), and sites that no one ever goes to, like old-school THIS IS ME AND MY DOG IS OVER THERE personal sites. Sites like Slashdot would cease to exist in their current formats.
Hopefully I managed to sort of halfway get a point across here, I tried really hard!!!
But maybe you were just being nostalgic for the old days, and not saying that it could still be that way. Then, I guess I'm just an asshole.
Apparently my uncle that thought his bones were talking to him wasnt crazy, he was just ahead of his time.
What happens when 20 people coming from all different directions have the device?
The roads aren't designed very well?
Poems are by their nature a written artform - if you publish someone's poems, you are publishing the entirety of their work, and I dont think that anyone would dispute that that is wrong. In my opinion, things are a little bit more hazy for song lyrics. For one thing, a lot of what you will find on lyrics sites is people guessing at what the artist might be singing. So you're getting someone's interpretation of a work rather than the work itself. Then things get even more hazy with lyrics copied out of liner notes. But even if that's illegal, I can't see how it's something that's worth objecting to - as an artist, it's much easier to get any message you have across if people can actually tell what you're saying.