Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 08:07:39 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, mph@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources Message-ID: <13415.894262059@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 00:41:54 %2B0200." <19980504004154.04264@follo.net>
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In message <19980504004154.04264@follo.net>, Eivind Eklund writes: >> > Refusing to download ads from the WWW is very bad practice. Those ads are >> > paying for the service you're using. I'm not even certain we should have >> > the above program as a port - I don't think we'd have a 'automated >> > crack-on-download' tool, for instance, and this is actually fairly similar. >> > >> >> Eivind, >> >> hmm....if i understand what you are saying then >> 1. i should watch the commercials on TV rather than getting >> a sandwich or changing the channel. >> 2. if i record a program of TV, i shouldnt fast-forward thru >> the commercials. > >Let me rephrase this for TV: > >If you're a producer of TV-sets, including an option to automatically >remove all advertising so that all programs run continously[1] would >be unwise, as it would be bad for the health of the medium. As a >consumer, skipping on a case-by-case basis is (of course) OK. I think there is pretty good data supporting that television would be much better without the advertising, because they could concentrate on contents instead of ratings. PBS is a case in point. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal
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