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So it's come to this: A company spends tens of milions of dollars financing great shows that wouldn't exist otherwise, including one that was cancelled and left
by mapgrep 13y ago
So it's come to this: A company spends tens of milions of dollars financing great shows that wouldn't exist otherwise, including one that was cancelled and left for dead, then makes it incredibly easy and cheap to get at this content, disrupting greedy inefficient incumbents -- only to be derided within the hacker community as a "troll... charging people through the nose for what they want."
You don't have any entitlement to the things you want simply because you want them. When someone spends loads of money creating that thing you want, they can charge what they please. You are free to call them dumb of criticize their terms, but when you're reduced to calling an innovative and very low cost, low margin company like Netflix a "fat troll" you become the sort of caricature the worst, dumbest old line content companies love: A free rider who will never pay, no matter how good the terms, who has no respect for the efforts or rights of others.
- mbreese 13y agoIn this context, I didn't consider the "troll" comments to have a negative connotation. In fact, I found it pretty descriptive. They could have just as easily have used "gatekeeper" or "toll-collector". Trolls under bridges though is a lot more fun to picture in my head.