Kiss Internet Surfing Goodbye

[Pikarya]

Won't go far imo. Didn't Time Warner/Comcast try to pull a similar stunt with bandwidth charges in Texas awhile back? To just get shut down soon right after?

[Kuya]

It makes sense that the internet is illegal when it doesn't make some asshole money.

[Aerin]

Oh GOD, did I laugh at that.

Same, that was awesome.

[Cjskater]

Reminds me of:
http://i27.tinypic.com/2e5pkdz.jpg

From that EU pay2access sites thing awhile back

[Akucaen]

Reminds me of:
From that EU pay2access sites thing awhile back

Shit like that infuriates me to no end.

[Xtrasweettea]

This is Disney just talking. Disney and other theme parks have been loosing money and need to make up for the loss of foot traffic going into their parks. Proposing an idea like this won't make it very far in the international scheme of things. I don't think the government will want to hire the necessary manpower to police the internet to see if people are getting on free (since companies WILL be expecting our government to hire an internet police force).

Though, this could be something Florida may look into. Disney has very strong lobbyists here in Florida (and some pretty money hungry senators also). Disney (with a few other theme park companies) convinced our states government a few years ago to not allow public schools to start no sooner then late August. The companies were complaining that they were loosing money because kids were in school in early August. Schools were doing that because the last 9 week session ended before Christmas break. That means all exams were done before kids went off to break. Now the kids are back to having to take their 2nd 9 week exams the week or second week after Christmas break. What kid is going to study over break?

[Pirian]

Sorry, all I read in your post was "loosing"



...Oh, and when I was in HS (3 years ago) the last 2 years we had our first semester exams after Christmas break, but we also had a week after we came back to review. This is NC

[Xtrasweettea]

States are different. NC is better off on a few things then FL is. Only reason I've know about the school system in FL is because my mom's a teacher.

Hehe, sorry, after rereading my post, I realized I put in "loosing" instead of "losing." Good eye.

[Jeryhn]

Does it matter? There will always be a free provider.

^ This. It's the fucking Internet.

To drive the point home:
Why pay a subscription to download porn, when there are free sites available?

[guartz]

It makes sense that the internet is illegal when it doesn't make some asshole money.

The problem with the internet is that anyone can make money from it.

Which clearly needs to stop. Only the people with political connections can make money. Them the rules.

[Kuya]

For some people, making money isn't enough if they aren't making the most money.

[Ququroon]

The only truth in this entire thread: Arial is indeed better than Helvetica.