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Sep 25, 2008View in Crawl 4
Nah, I'm sorry, but without ads the whole commercial part of the internet would collapse. Professional bloggers would ahve nothing. Digg would have nothing. By extension, we would only have the BBC in the UK as a channel.Sorry man, but no adblock for me.
No, the real morally bankrupt notion is intellectual property. This is a concept where a commodity which has zero cost to reproduce is greedily rationed out based on people's ability to pay. Copyright law does not grant additional rights to creators, it merely takes away the rights of everyone else. Patent law was created to give incentive for inventors to invent, now it merely tangles them up with liability and restricts their ability to research new inventions. Trademark law is designed to protect us from counterfeit products, for whatever that's worth, I don't really care about the difference between a real Rolex and a fake one, since I don't wear watches.
I never said that I don't pay for my music. I'm just saying that I like to share the music that I pay for with my friends, family, or other people who have the same interests as me. Most of the people who download a product initially had no want or means of buying the product anyways, so the music creators lost absolutely nothing in their sales from these free downloads, and neither of us gained money from the process, maybe just friendship. (After downloading the music files, the person might actually feel more obligated or interested in actually buying the product themselves.)
gigitrixSep 26, 2008
Nah, I'm sorry, but without ads the whole commercial part of the internet would collapse. Professional bloggers would ahve nothing. Digg would have nothing. By extension, we would only have the BBC in the UK as a channel.Sorry man, but no adblock for me.
phoompSep 26, 2008
I agree. I do use AdBlock, but I only block the "look-at-me-now-look-at-me-now" ads and the ones with uninvited audio.
funkylokiSep 26, 2008
The Flash could.
chongliSep 26, 2008
No, the real morally bankrupt notion is intellectual property. This is a concept where a commodity which has zero cost to reproduce is greedily rationed out based on people's ability to pay. Copyright law does not grant additional rights to creators, it merely takes away the rights of everyone else. Patent law was created to give incentive for inventors to invent, now it merely tangles them up with liability and restricts their ability to research new inventions. Trademark law is designed to protect us from counterfeit products, for whatever that's worth, I don't really care about the difference between a real Rolex and a fake one, since I don't wear watches.
bradwjensenSep 27, 2008
I never said that I don't pay for my music. I'm just saying that I like to share the music that I pay for with my friends, family, or other people who have the same interests as me. Most of the people who download a product initially had no want or means of buying the product anyways, so the music creators lost absolutely nothing in their sales from these free downloads, and neither of us gained money from the process, maybe just friendship. (After downloading the music files, the person might actually feel more obligated or interested in actually buying the product themselves.)