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Posted By: Claude Errera | Date: 3/29/02 6:13 a.m. | |
In Response To: Re: Very well put ... but ... (Tycho) : He is not selling the content..in fact he's not selling anything..if this
: So in short..he's not charging for the material on the site..he's charging to
This is a distinction lost on many, actually. (And, in fact, it's irrelevant, in the long run - if it costs you money to get at the files, no matter WHAT that money is actually for, the files aren't free. And you can't use the argument that "I pay for my internet connection, so in effect, I'm ALREADY paying for access" - because that internet connection gives you access to many more things than Fileball, while a Fileball subscription gives you access only to... Fileball.) Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that what Fm is doing is wrong. From where I sit, he had exactly 2 choices:
Wow, that was a messy sentence. Bottom line - he's paid for the bandwidth used by the site for 3 years. (Okay, I paid for a large chunk of it in the early days, when the Mill was running out of b.org - but that ended a year and a half ago, and every penny of the operating costs from that point on has been paid by Fm.) As the site states, over 7.5 terabytes have been downloaded since stats have been kept... that's a lot of bytes. And at this point, Fm doesn't have the resources to continue paying for them. So, either the community picks up the slack (looks like that's not gonna happen :( ), or the site closes. Which sucks.
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