God forbid someone would charge money for a valuable service! Blasphemy!
This is my all-time number one gripe about the Internet. Users too often feel entitled to getting things for free.
This is my all-time number one gripe about the Internet. Users too often feel entitled to getting things for free.
Of the top of my head, I downloaded Star Trek for my dad a couple months after it came out. He was bedridden and I wanted to see it with him. I would have delightedly paid the cost of taking a family to the theater--$30 to $50--to stream it online. Naturally, that wasn't possible so I spent an hour downloading it.
It's just seldom as easy as point and click and watch. I had to download 2 or 3 crappy cam versions first.
Most people on the internet are willing to watch ads, plenty of people are willing to pay for stuff.
But when you start something that competes with something else that costs money and your selling point is that your service is free, how can you be surprised when people don't want to pay?