 jc100
join:2002-04-10
1 edit | And Bloggers should be paid for talking about an ISP. Customers should be paid. Customer is such an outdated word. How about quality assurance beta testers> ISPS no longer need customers but people to check their service for consistency. Therefore, all people signed up with an ISP should be paid for their continual commitment in browsing, emailing, and utilizing the service. Better yet, ISPS should just bankroll the internet. Since ISPS don't make the content they link to, it should be their job to PAY FOR EVERYONE's web hosting bill.
.... People are just getting inherently more ignorant as time passes. If you didn't get my post, it was sarcasm above to highlight the stupidity that is taken place. | |
|
 | |
jmn1207
Premium
join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Blog Block Anyone interested in making money from created content needs to be paid and have a contract in place before the "art" makes its way to the internet. If the creation has any value, someone will pay for it. Otherwise, find something else to do to put food on the table. This is not the first time that technology made certain jobs obsolete, and it won't be the last. The art and literature fields are not immune to this phenomenon any more than the wagon wheel maker. | |
|
cornelius785
join:2006-10-26
Worcester, MA | is this for real? i mean, look at the link, IT'S AN INTERNET PETITION. i sure hope this isn't the only source, cause pretty much anyone can create an internet petition. also, does anyone take an internet petition seriously?? | |
|
| rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
 ·Charter Pipeline
| Re: is this for real? I don't know whether or not it's "real" but they aren't the first group to suggest that it's not enough for the consumer to pay for the connection.
Look at broadcast TV. It's not enough that the local channels broadcast their signal free of charge through the air. If the satellite and cable TV folks rebroadcast this content, the broadcaster wants a cut.
Look at the economic stimulus plan. I understand the paper industry is lobbying for money because they consider themselves a "green" industry (renewable).
At every turn, everyone has their hand out hoping the government will print them some money. Why wouldn't writers try to get someone else to put food on the table?
Rush Limbaugh is a fruit cake but several years ago he said something that made sense to me. It went something like.... If you need something, you believe you are entitled to it and you cannot afford it, go ask your neighbor to get/do it for you. If this doesn't seem right, then you should figure out a way to get/do it for yourself because regardless of how you hide your request, your neighbor will eventually pay for it. | |
|
| | |
| | | rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
·Charter Pipeline
| Re: is this for real? I thought a long time ago the FCC forced cable to carry the locals. Is cable allowed to break out the local channels and charge separately for them? I thought satellite does this or did this.
With digital, ghosts, hum bars and static are a thing of the past. I would have no problem putting a line item veto on my cable bill for local channels and getting them through the air. Currently I don't think that's an option, at least not in my area. | |
|
| | |
| voiptop
join:2009-02-06
1 edit | New content? Who will decide that content is really new ant not reprinted and not rewritten? Very tricky topic this many loopholes. Can't imagine in real life. | |
|
| |
cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| First they came... On the Internet the RIAA wanted to charge for "losses" due to music piracy,
and I spoke up because I wasn't a music pirate.
Then the MPAA wanted to charge for "losses" due to movie piracy,
and I spoke up because I wasn't a movie pirate.
Then the newspapers wanted to charge for their "news",
and I spoke up because I didn't read the newspapers anyways.
Then the Canadian Writer's Guild wanted to charge for Canadian content,
and I spoke up because I don't even know what Canadian content is, let alone I don't read it.
Then my ISP wanted to pass all these charges on to me - and I left my ISP for one that realized I wasn't responsible for propping up all these faltering/failing business models that haven't evolved with technologies.
Apologies to Pastor Martin Niemöller. Do I need to license your work in order to make a derivative? | |
|
|
jmn1207
Premium
join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
·Verizon FIOS
| Re: First they came... Unfortunately, the way things are heading, at some point the same people that sell you internet services will also be the owners of the content. At the very least, the two will be partnered together in such a way that there will be a significantly lopsided interest on their part when compared to the consumers. We simply will not have an option to leave one ISP for another that does not also employ a similar strategy. | |
|
| | |
| | |
Kilroy
Premium,MVM
join:2002-11-21
Sterling Heights, MI
·WOW Internet and C..
| So, all I have to do is... Slap some content on the web and collect my paycheck from the world's ISPs? I love the idea as I'm currently out of work, but let's be real.
said by jmn1207 :
If the creation has any value, someone will pay for it.
You hit the nail on the head. Produce something worth buying at a reasonable price and people will buy it. If you can't produce, find a real job.
said by rradina :
At every turn, everyone has their hand out hoping the government will print them some money. Why wouldn't writers try to get someone else to put food on the table?
I'd settle for a few digital bits in the right place in my bank account. I'd spend some to stimulate the economy and save some so that the bank could lend more. Isn't that a great plan, please only a billion.
--
When will the people realize that with DRM they aren't purchasing anything? | |
|
bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | South Park? What are they going to do otherwise? Strike? | |
|
| 
Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
 ·Qwest.net
1 edit | Re: South Park? said by bogey780  :What are they going to do otherwise? Strike? They tried this in Hollywood Land and it didn't work very well. The problem was re-runs. 
--
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
- Mark Twain in Eruption | |
|
major marco
Res Firma Mitescere Nescit
Premium
join:2003-02-13
Stepford, CA
clubs: | Who Cares The Canadian writers can live in the same fantasyland the Australians do and the rest of the world will go on happily without them. | |
|
| popbop
join:2008-03-17
Orlando, FL
| Re: Who Cares The fantasy is that writing is a hallowed, mystical art that requires the utmost education and preparation to master. Their arrogance has created a sense of entitlement that has the world saying, "adapt or die"!
The truth is that just about any competent high school graduate with something worthwhile to say or report is as capable any rag master guild's so-called professionals.
Writing is about communicating. Billions of people can communicate wonderfully through writing without submitting to the bigoted ire of the "professionals" and their hawkish editors. That's why the web and blogoshpere is decimating these bastions of media and their antiquated guards.
What we we have here another Don Quixote tilting at windmills.
The new media kiddie is about information-now, information-hot, information-relevant... information-FREE! -- free in thought, access, and of charge.
Now, in the immortal words of one of their own demigods...
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Adapt or die you silly Canucks, just like the rest of us. | |
|
| | popbop
join:2008-03-17
Orlando, FL | Re: Who Cares Sorry, forgot to credit that quote to Sir Charles Darwin | |
|
lrtc
join:2004-06-05
Toronto | I see We have a Canadian writer's guild? I guess it's true you do learn something new everyday. | |
|
| Desdinova
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | Re: I see Who do you think writes the copy on all those packages of backbacon? | |
|
JohnQPublic
Premium
join:2002-03-22
Xanadu | Feared? "My guild is appearing before the CRTC on February 17th, urging them to start regulating the internet in Canada, specifically feared towards video content."
Feared? Or Geared? | |
|
magnax3
@telus.net
| Here is a thought! Get money from doing your damn job and stop looking for bail outs! The kind of crap they produce like Sophie and little mosque on the prairie they should be paying ISP for allowing people to watch such pure crap.
For the good of the nation and the needs of the many instead of the few the guild should have to be disbanded. Heck half the writers prob live in the states now anyway and are just in the guild because they were born here. | |
|
|
MacGyver
Bell Sucks
Premium,ExMod 2003-05
join:2001-10-14
Orleans, ON |  -=YAWN=-
| |
|
| Ikarasu
join:2004-01-09
Port Coquitlam, BC
 ·ITalkBB
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Re: -=YAWN=- said by MacGyver :Wow, 76 signatures so far. I'm terrified. whats funny, is half of them 77 signatures are people making fun of it! | |
|
S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL | wow is right... slow news day Karl ? | |
|
yolarry
join:2007-12-29
Creston, WV | oh great Canada on Strike. | |
|
|
|
|
Canadian Writers Think ISPs Should Pay Them
·
Re: is this for real?
