The internet will become a paid system in 5 years?

I seriously think I would stop using the internet if this happened. I mean, this is disgusting.

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My question is, would we have to pay for a service provider (i.e. AT&T or Comcast) AND subscribe to every site we use?

How do you guys feel about this?

wow if that actually happens i will be mad

i probably would stop using it

wait would it cost to play my ps3 too then

I already pay for my internet.Freebird8877

How can you charge for the Internet? Say you are hosting a website on your own server. How does that work? Who does the money go to?

I would make free websites and be an internet hero

Won't happen.

It already is, unless you live right next to an unsecure Wi-Fi hotspot.

It would really depend on the price, content I'm getting etc. I can see a positive side to it though, I would finally have no choice but to...

*deep breath*

go...outside :|

Sounds like something MS would do.Tjeremiah1988

Wait, so the internet is for free? I have been robbed all this time. :evil:

Yeah, and next they're going to charge us to flush our toilet. Oh wait, they already do.

It's Capitalism. Deal with it.

What I want to know is where I can get this supposed free internet for the next five years. :P

Doesn't sound like anything to be worried about. I mean, there's already game sites where you can pay to get a few extras but it's optional.Chojuto

Yeah, and next they're going to charge us to flush our toilet. Oh wait, they already do.

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lol we already pay to use it yet they want more well they wont be getting any money off of me if they do this the Internet would be as dead as the dodo hardly anyone would use it .

I would maybe pay to use wikipedia if it were really cheap but that would be about it.

Internet sites needing a price equals seriously bad idea.

Somehow that seems like total crap to me.

I didnt like this mans tone. "It absolutely WILL happen"...

Screw you pal, I should slap you silly.

Sounds like something MS would do.Tjeremiah1988

They found a way to makeProject Natal racist.Now they want everyone to pay for using the one of the biggest speader of information. I never liked these guys.

Well that's a load of bull doo doo.Kikouken

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Its a disgusting concept, how greedy can people be? I don't think it will pass, I really hope this never happens...

Arrg, I simply cannot believe how greedy some people are. "Har Har Har, I make $100 000 a minute but that is not enough Har Har Har! Lets charge those hard working lower and middle class folk more so that I may make $250 000 a minute instead! They don't need all that money anyway, I mean, they don't have to pay the expenses of a private jet after all! Har Har Har!"

Not going to happen. Granted...the man has done incredible things for the media world in his career...but the internet is a completely different animal. If sites that were once free, decide to charge, while at the same time not offering anything more than they offered before, or that you can go and get elsewhere for free; that site will lose its customer base and die.

The internet doesn't work like other forms of media...it's not like a cable tv subscription. The beauty of the WORLD wide web is that you can go anywhere and find anything without being limited to the "channels" that you are currently paying for.

Nation-specific regulatory measures may be a different story sadly...

[QUOTE="Freebird8877"]I already pay for my internet.SolidSnake35

No way that'll ever happen.

You'd basically be paying to see ads... wouldn't make any sense...

Go ahead. I'll just download it all off of my newsgroups, which I already pay for.

Seriously, though. This will never happen. People will just stay away from those pay sites and get the free stuff like they already do.

Personally I can't see this happening. There are websites all over the internet that charge for "premium service or content" Gamespot being one of them. That said the benefits of paid membership for most sites isn't worth the price of admission. Were Gamespot to start charging you per visit, or to access the sites content people would abandon the site in droves and head to a site that isn't charging. The internet will always be free because people won't stand for having to pay for it.

I don't know if they are still around but back around 2000 I know there were a lot of internet providers that charged you by your usage not a monthly fee but in this age of internet gaming, streaming video, and rich web content they would have to offer extremely competative rates to sway people away from the monthly fee model that just about everyone is using.

Paying attention to that kind of article reminds me of those chain e-mails I used to randomly get that said that hotmail was going to force it's users to pay (unless you forward this e-mail to ten of your friends). I didn't believe that because I knew it was stupid to think so and it would be stupider for Microsoft to even try to do so. The same applies to any attempt anybody might make at making the internet "a paid system".

Darth Vader "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

we're already paying to go on the internet. That old man is a dumb 12 yearold who probably his mom is paying for it, stupid ****o

Somebody will probably try to make us pay for teh interwebz, but the effort will flop HARD.