We Irish like our entitlements:
- Guinness
- Potatoes
- Independence from Britain
- A music industry afforded the full protection of the State from paying income taxes, effective competition, adapting to the marketplace and/or catering to consumer demand.
It's not the connection to an aerial, it's the circuits that act as the receiver that causes you to pay. That's why the monitor is exempt but the TV isn't.
It's all a pile of shite, but just wait till they classify your PC as a "receiving device", that's when things will get really interesting.
Heh heh, all this brings me back to the time in college when we beat the TV licence inspector by simply cutting the plug off the TV. We couldn't prove it worked so he couldn't make us pay. Ah, memories.
...one of Cartoon Network's bigger success stories of the past few years, Adventure Time, earned and retains a lot of its viewers because of the vibrant fan community that the producing studio set up and engaged with.
And to think the network will undo/inhibit all that hard work with a stunt like this.
Y'know, I think our good friends at Guinness would have something to say about Kellogs' trademark claim to the toucan. (http://www.toucans.info/guinness.html)
Now that y'know people don't need blank CDs as much any more and sales have slipped, it seems pretty logical that the tax that was formerly applied to them be transitioned to the medium that replaced them.
Ditto. I moved to the US 4 years ago and figured I would far rather have $700 in my pocket than fork it out for cable over the course of a year. I've subsisted just fine on Netflix, etc. etc.
Cord cutters are not the people that companies like Comcast, DirecTv, etc. should be worried about, they can always be bribed into coming back.
It's folks like myself who never get it in the first place. We've never seen the value and thus it takes a lot more convincing to get us to buy service.
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We Irish like our entitlements:
- Guinness
- Potatoes
- Independence from Britain
- A music industry afforded the full protection of the State from paying income taxes, effective competition, adapting to the marketplace and/or catering to consumer demand.
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Spongebob Will NEVER Die!
Any eejit who believes a company will kill-off their cash cow maybe doesn't deserve the glory of free internet.
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It's not the connection to an aerial, it's the circuits that act as the receiver that causes you to pay. That's why the monitor is exempt but the TV isn't.
It's all a pile of shite, but just wait till they classify your PC as a "receiving device", that's when things will get really interesting.
Heh heh, all this brings me back to the time in college when we beat the TV licence inspector by simply cutting the plug off the TV. We couldn't prove it worked so he couldn't make us pay. Ah, memories.
Quite ironically...
...one of Cartoon Network's bigger success stories of the past few years, Adventure Time, earned and retains a lot of its viewers because of the vibrant fan community that the producing studio set up and engaged with.
And to think the network will undo/inhibit all that hard work with a stunt like this.
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And if it keeps up, he'll manage to burrow himself all the way to Australia!
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Y'know, I think our good friends at Guinness would have something to say about Kellogs' trademark claim to the toucan. (http://www.toucans.info/guinness.html)
They Have to tax Something
Now that y'know people don't need blank CDs as much any more and sales have slipped, it seems pretty logical that the tax that was formerly applied to them be transitioned to the medium that replaced them.
No-one uses Real Media???
"though it seems unlikely that many people still encode things in Real Media's format"
Ah but plenty of government agencies have paid up licenses that they just HAVE to use.
Re: I guess people could always just download it instead...
Ditto. I buy international editions for everything that I can. I've lost track of how much money I've saved over the years.
The best part? Half the "international editions" are printed in the USA (and thus covered by first sale).
I get a book at a third of the US price and the publisher still makes a profit. Everyone's a winner!
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Ditto. I moved to the US 4 years ago and figured I would far rather have $700 in my pocket than fork it out for cable over the course of a year. I've subsisted just fine on Netflix, etc. etc.
Cord cutters are not the people that companies like Comcast, DirecTv, etc. should be worried about, they can always be bribed into coming back.
It's folks like myself who never get it in the first place. We've never seen the value and thus it takes a lot more convincing to get us to buy service.