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... since I've paid to access the Interwebs You're paying for data transport, you're not paying for the content.
by joopxiv 12y ago
... since I've paid to access the Interwebs
You're paying for data transport, you're not paying for the content.
- Ntrails 12y agobut the content is free - just ad supported. They can construct an "ad-wall" in the same way they construct a "pay-wall" and are free to do so. Otherwise they are offering free content.
- greyman 12y agoYes, I am not paying for the content, but the content creator also doesn't pay for the right to present his website publicly. It only pays for the webserver space and bandwidth. (I am following your logic). World Wide Web works in a way, that I can create a http request, and then do what I want with it, for example I can only take the text and throw away anything else. I paid for the data transport, as you said, and then I don't have any other obligations after downloading those data.