Yup. It'll lead to the Crapplebees and Fridays-ization of the internet. Mom & Pop shunned and chain restaurants embraced because 'you know what you're going to get'.
People gravitate towards the known when they're paying for something. It's comfortable and it makes sense from a personal economic sense. We're not made of money. This will kill independent video production. No more surfing around on Youtube or Blip. No more stumbling across a Rocketboom or Epic Fu. No more surfing a multimedia net. The bullshit 'Best of the Web' on local corporate news channels will dictate where traffic goes because nobody'll be able to afford to surf. This is very bad for independent media, and I'm surprised that people don't find it troublesome. It looks as if everybody's going to take this lying down. If independent producers of media don't get up in arms about this and speak up, we're going to go away. No corporate media source is going to talk about this therefore, like on wikipedia, it doesn't exist. Nobody will know. Doom and gloom, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 17, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Chris wrote: > I'm less worried about my own costs going up than I am about the > shrinking of my potential audience, since a lot of people won't > necessarily be willing to pay what I'm willing to pay for access. That > will mean a lot more people tiptoeing around the internet, afraid to > sample a lot of indie video content for fear they'll be hit with a > penalty charge or their access will be cut off. > > Chris > > --- In [email protected], "David Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I think I'm ok with this so long as where I'm downloading the video > > *from* does NOT matter in anyway. > > > > For example, if I download video from blip.tv, it should cost the > same > > amount per bit as video from CNN.com. > > > > Now, granted I don't WANT to have to pay more for video > downloads ... > > but as long as all creators/hosters of the content cost the consumer > > the same thing ... I think it's justifiable to price on consumption. > > (Of course the consumers aren't going to go for it unless its very > > reasonable, or every other ISP out there bands together in price > > fixing) > > > > A slippery slope though, perhaps, in regard to net neutrality - > should > > be watched. > > > > - Dave > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
