Comments on: Silly cord cutter, you will pay for cable. Oh yes.

By: drdarkeny

drdarkeny — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:27:12 +0000

I don’t suppose there’s any way I can BLOCK for FLAG your trollboi post for offensiveness, @Brett Glass – so I’ll just publicly slap your face for it instead.

Broadcasters want to make money? Fine – we’ll pay for the content…in the way we choose. We’ll even watch ads for the content…in the way we choose. But we see ZERO reason why we should have to have a cable account we don’t need just to prop up Big Cable’s Broken-Ass business model.

By: Bo Gritz

Bo Gritz — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:06:20 +0000

Internet shall slay TV. Nobody with half a brain would pay $120.00 a month for 240 shitty cable channels, and maybe 1 or 2 good ones, if they knew they had another option.

I have broadband internet for 30 a month, plus 8 for Netflix a month since 2006. Im totally satisfied with that.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:38:10 +0000

Hello Amazon!!!!!!

By: guest

guest — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:22:22 +0000

You assume that you have a ‘right’ to someone else’s work. Why are you against a content creator selling directly to their audience? Would you prevent a small business person from selling directly to their customers too, and only let them sell thru intermediaries like, say, Google and Amazon?

By: Basafest

Basafest — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:06:40 +0000

All of this is fine until you recall that no content is created free. Think of your entertainment like your dinner on the table. It didn’t start on the table or in the fridge or at the store or even at the distributor. So, when you want more of it where is it going to suddenly appear from? Your desire to have the end product doesn’t justify taking it without creating avenues–read paying– for the creative processes to be upheld–read compensated for years spent honing their craft to make such wonderfully designed and professionally appealing content.

If your article was suddenly being reprinted hundred of thousands of times in books, mags, reread on radios, cable and on the big screen, I am sure your perspective about the electronic umbilical would greatly change.

Pay for your entertainment. Period.

By: TurboKitty

TurboKitty — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:22:50 +0000

Can’t get blood out of a turnip … I can’t afford Satellite or Cable … I can barely afford what I have … if I have to give up Hulu … so be it!

By: shayelea

shayelea — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:55:40 +0000

I do support the creation of content – I pay for Hulu Plus, I pay for Netflix, I pay for movies I go see in the theater, I pay for episodes of things I can’t get any other way on iTunes. I object to the idea that I should also have to support the cable industry if that model does not and has not ever worked for me. If people can’t figure out how to make content pay, that’s the fault of the industry, not my problem.

By: Ric Sansand

Ric Sansand — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:54:23 +0000

RIP Hulu. I actually thought you were going to ‘innovate,’ but alas its just not to be. When the content world gets it through its THICK skull that the old delivery and monetary system is obsolete? I cut the cord over 15 years ago and its one of the smartest things I have ever done.

Hey US consumer, show these schmucks where to get off just like you did the music industry.

By: shayelea

shayelea — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:50:28 +0000

The NYP article indicates to me that it’s the free Hulu model that will start requiring authentication. Which I still think is asinine, but it sounds to me like it’s an effort separate from Hulu Plus.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:44:45 +0000

The cord cutters should pay for cable – the consumer will have to “chip-in” with advertisers and support the creation of content – not just pay for the distribution path.