People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back?
People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back?
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The whole political discussion about Internet media licensing, like a 10-15€ tax to finance artists while making piracy global. In the end we have the same except it's financing Internet millionaires over artists
Is it weird that I don't want to pay for any streaming media, I don't have a cable package, but if some reasonable system were created such as that I could have access to digital copies of media for a flat monthly rate I would pay it?
Like if someone would come and just say you pay $80 a month and you can watch listen to or read anything you can find and save them all locally for future reuse, no problems, I would probably pony up.
Yes I'm also the same way with ads. I'd happily spend more for internet if there was somehow an "ad surcharge" that would mean I'd never see ads or be tracked. Let me pay whatever the advertisers pay.
I'd rather pay the same then use knowledge online to learn how to circumvent their bullshit. I will never pay companies to remove bullshit 'features and items' that make services inherently worse. It only enables them to continue molesting and raping you
Adblock exists, and as such, I never see ads. You could do the exact same, for the low low price of $0.
I already do. I also want to pay my way.
The problem is what I'd like doesn't exist (I'm not going to subscribe you a million different websites and still not even be ad free) and probably can't. How much do all the ads I'm blocking cost? It'd be ripe for abuse but I'd essentially like a taxi meter, but it would charge me for website use from just one central account that I top up or is part of my internet bill or whatever.
I want the whole business model of using ads and tracking to pay for the internet to not exist.
$40, yep, I'd do it. $80? Nope, I'd rather drop $2k on a new HDD array.