Comment Re:less than the cost of ... (Score 1) 481
Correct - value of a service is dependant on an individual. How much money, time, skill, knowledge you have and how much of that you are willing to trade for a service. Also morality comes into play.
Sure when I was younger, I would easily trade hours to say download a file instead of paying $5 to get that file now. I actually subscribed to FilePlanet recently. I don't play games that often but at the time I had just gotten a new video card, and yeah, I wanted to see what the latest in 3d demos would look like. Sure I can hunt around for files for an hour or pay the $7 an get my fill. Well worth it in my books - not in other's.
If the system charged say $1 per download I probably would of spent more money during that weekend, but would of prefered the per download (micropayment) since I know I will not use it in the months to come.
If one has all the time in the World, a service becomes less valuable. I would rather pay a site that I visit and get a valued service, than have to hunt around for another source of such information.
Sure when I was younger, I would easily trade hours to say download a file instead of paying $5 to get that file now. I actually subscribed to FilePlanet recently. I don't play games that often but at the time I had just gotten a new video card, and yeah, I wanted to see what the latest in 3d demos would look like. Sure I can hunt around for files for an hour or pay the $7 an get my fill. Well worth it in my books - not in other's.
If the system charged say $1 per download I probably would of spent more money during that weekend, but would of prefered the per download (micropayment) since I know I will not use it in the months to come.
If one has all the time in the World, a service becomes less valuable. I would rather pay a site that I visit and get a valued service, than have to hunt around for another source of such information.
