Arizth wrote...
I've heard all this before, and honestly, I do not think it's a threat.
Sure, I agree. Cable CEOs are dicks.
However, in the end, their "Rich" status depends on consumers buying their shit.
And, with the level of computer knowledge among the average consumer rising yearly, by 2012, more people will use their heads and simply boycott the internet for a bit.
Once the money starts running dry, Companies will be the ones giving way, not consumers.
I doubt it, a lot of changes like that occur in the pattern of being a big change that a bunch of people wail against at first. Then eventually they give up and everyone just kinda moves on and adapts and the rich keep getting richer. It will happen that way, and this will completely fuck up the internet. There really isn't anyone to stop it, the companies have it in their best interests because they are money hungry fucks. And the government won't stop it because they get to tax the profits, and they have no reason to help citizens over corperations. We don't have a powerful enough lobby group, except for the whole voting thing that no one gives a shit about anymore.