On Thu, Dec 28, 2000, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: Sending SMS messages by E-mail +
Sending E-mail from an SMS cellphone":
> Hey,
>
> I more than agreeing with Nadav,
> Face the fact that in life you sometimes have to pay for stuff.
>...
Though I agree, I have to add one point: I have no problem paying for stuff:
the problems starts when a company, wanting to have a rigid charging system
and to maximize its earnings, starts to limit my rights and give me much
less options. All the arguments about software licences, music rights, and
such, are like that: I don't care about being charged to buy a DVD film, but
I do care that to maximize their earnings they (rather arbitrarily) decided
I shouldn't watch movies I bought in the U.S., or that I can view movies
under the Windows OS, but not Linux.
Another example, from the Real World: movie theaters in Israel try to prevent
you from entering food into the theater unless you bought it there. Any
arguments about making a mess is pure crap (don't the food they sell make a
mess?); the truth is simple: probably 50% (or more!) of the profit they make
come from the popcorn. So what's the problem? The problem is that because of
their greediness, and because of marketing tricks (imagine movie tickets costing
40 shekels, and the food 5 shekels) they are limiting my rights, and that
sucks big-time. I once went to the movies with someone who wanted to bring
their own popcorn, of a special diet kind. There was a BIG fight there (and
that is an understatement). Even somebody who thinks businesses can decide
their own business models got to agree that something really sucks in the
movie theater business model.
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