Comments on: Online Cinema Tickets http://kallewoof.com/2006/08/19/online-cinema-tickets/ yours truly Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:35:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Kalle http://kallewoof.com/2006/08/19/online-cinema-tickets/comment-page-1/#comment-745 Kalle Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:56:31 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=64#comment-745 Yep. The $2 my ISP gave me was a fucking joke, sort of like a pat on the head for the trouble I'm forced into because I don't run Windows. If they'd given me $10 and made my tickets invalid (by grabbing the code printed on them -- easy thing to do, surely), I would've just nodded and, well, bought some food or something. The bigger point though is that media corporations are not discouraging *me* from downloading stuff online, when they don't give me a my-turf-alternative. Who knows, I might've fallen head-over-heels in love with the online movie deal. It's not that expensive, and I've got enough "movie" equipment plugged in to my computer to make it actually worthwhile. But I can't, cause I don't have Windows, so I'll just keep on downloading those movies, I suppose. :) (To be honest, the sad fact is, I don't. I don't download movies. Because I find them incredibly dull. Occasionally a friend or family member sends me a movie, though.) Yep. The $2 my ISP gave me was a fucking joke, sort of like a pat on the head for the trouble I’m forced into because I don’t run Windows. If they’d given me $10 and made my tickets invalid (by grabbing the code printed on them — easy thing to do, surely), I would’ve just nodded and, well, bought some food or something.

The bigger point though is that media corporations are not discouraging *me* from downloading stuff online, when they don’t give me a my-turf-alternative. Who knows, I might’ve fallen head-over-heels in love with the online movie deal. It’s not that expensive, and I’ve got enough “movie” equipment plugged in to my computer to make it actually worthwhile. But I can’t, cause I don’t have Windows, so I’ll just keep on downloading those movies, I suppose. :)
(To be honest, the sad fact is, I don’t. I don’t download movies. Because I find them incredibly dull. Occasionally a friend or family member sends me a movie, though.)

]]> By: Nicole http://kallewoof.com/2006/08/19/online-cinema-tickets/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Nicole Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:28:10 +0000 http://kallewoof.com/?p=64#comment-744 Well that just plain sucks. I'd feel completely ripped off and complained to my ISP about the companies they are choosing to work in collaboration with. Let them know you aren't pleased with the fact that they are in a joint effort with a company that makes no effort to provide for customers who don't use Windows. Yanno what babe, I think you and I need to start a vigilante wiki (if there isn't one already) where people can list all the software and companies, websites etc... that don't even bother to accomodate other viewers. The whole issues pisses me off, which is why I got involved in standards in the first place, but using Linux as my primary computer now really drove home exactly how annoying and ignorant it is for people to assume that the world uses only Windows. Well that just plain sucks. I’d feel completely ripped off and complained to my ISP about the companies they are choosing to work in collaboration with. Let them know you aren’t pleased with the fact that they are in a joint effort with a company that makes no effort to provide for customers who don’t use Windows.

Yanno what babe, I think you and I need to start a vigilante wiki (if there isn’t one already) where people can list all the software and companies, websites etc… that don’t even bother to accomodate other viewers. The whole issues pisses me off, which is why I got involved in standards in the first place, but using Linux as my primary computer now really drove home exactly how annoying and ignorant it is for people to assume that the world uses only Windows.

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