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I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want some of my money you need to get it from the people who charge me every month for accesing you web page:
by Yuioup 11y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want some of my money you need to get it from the people who charge me every month for accesing you web page: My ISP.
They are the ones making money off the fact that I want to get on the internet and access content.
Too bad there is no reliable, independent mechanism for taking some of that money and putting it in a large pool to be ditributed to content creators. The amount you get is based on how popular your site is. The ISPs know exactly how popular your site is.
(Too bad I'm late to the thread. Nobody is going to read this)
- Dolores12 11y agoyou pay your ISP for internet access, not for content.
- Falkon1313 11y agoSounds like a good idea at first, but... Who did we pay for TV content prior to cable/satellite? No one. You bought the hardware and thereafter the content was all free, supported by ads. Cable access providers promised ad-free content, so people paid for it. Paying the access provider worked well. So well that it mostly wiped out the ad-supported over-the-air competition and left the cable cos as monopolies. Which enabled them to raise their prices and become filled with ads. While controlling what you could see and when, charging extra for some content vs other content, etc. Making ISPs more like cable companies doesn't seem like a good idea for the consumer. And it won't make the ads go away.
- bigbugbag 11y agoWell in TV jargon "content" refers to advertisement and "feel" refers to what you think as content. Isn't public TV paid for by taxes? Anyways, I second you, the ISP should not collect money for accessing content.