[GTALUG] OFF TOPIC: Re: an odd question about well on going service factors.

[ac]

We are all family. The only media income model that is slightly fair, is
advertising based revenue where the actual watcher is exposed to the
actual product/service offer, which is funding the media and
distribution thereof.

imo charging per eyeball watching and basing costs on whatever
definition of "family" is applied and/or per unit and/or per device is
all evil and never fair (and then sometimes still being exposed to
marketing in the media itself...)

Where there is 'consumption' charges or costs, for infrastructure use
or where infrastructure has not been paid twenty times over, some sort
of use or measurement of use is fine, I guess - but forever use charges
are also evil. Many cable providers, in many high density areas have
already received back their capital many times over, this does not stop
them from charging on forever based milking income models. 

Artists: many artists do receive decent income and many receive good
recurring for revenue for content created in minutes (specifically some
xmas songs, comes to mind)

That all said, artists sometimes do not even receive enough money to
literally buy a bread (not figuratively) where other parasites in the
media train earn millions in "revenue". A .za example would be
"Brenda Fassie" - and there are many in .ca as well, I expect.

I think that predatory media services will be milking cows and
shearing sheep forever, same as many "providers" of forever services.
(Where spectrum has been "allocated", given, bought and/or sold, for
example. Other examples are where IP numbers were received and are now
worth $$+ each. So, was I stupid not to hold onto 000 000's of ipv4
numbers that I was not using at the time? or am I too anal to get 
money for something that was never 'mine' in my mind? hmm,
yeah, I am just stupid, I guess.)

Last thought: we all are also "family" of sorts as I do really love
some of you and I am sure that if I knew the rest of you, I would
probably love you too :)


On Tue, 30 May 2023 23:16:39 -0400
Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 05:49:20PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > While this answers my specific question, your comment  about sharing
> > services  creates a different one.
> > If you have a large house  with more than one television, it is
> > often the case that this second television has its own cable box,
> > say to allow other members  of your household to  watch what they
> > wish. How is indeed  sharing the Internet with the basement of your
> > house different?  
> 
> They seem to realize that not letting one household share wouldn't get
> them many customers, while two households in one house they can claim
> isn't allowed.
> 
> Is it really different?  One could certainly argue that it isn't, but
> then the same argument could apply to all the units in a 20 story
> building. Where do you draw the line and they seem to go by
> household.  Of course is someone renting a room really different than
> someone renting a basement apartment with it's own entryway?
>