[Leaplist] program Kills YouTube ads!

[Damien McKenna]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kyle Gonzales
> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leaplist] program Kills YouTube ads!
> 
> I completely agree.  They will find a way to get their ads and product
> placements in, and it will become more and more annoying.

There are different theories on how advertisements affect the psyche.
Some believe that all advertising is taken in the same way, while more
recent theories suggest (and I agree) that your subconscious starts to
tune them out.  For example, look at any web page today, how many of the
advertisements do you *really* notice when you're reading the core
content?

> Kind of like how "Transformers" was less a movie about robots
> from outer space, and more a 2 hour GM commercial.

Amusingly, because I don't know/care much about cars the way most
Americans seem to, I never noticed that, they were just shiny vehicles
to me.

> The more that we try to get things for "free" the more that companies
> will ensure that either the quality and quantity of "free" content
> goes down, or that they will change the game completely on us.

Another possibility would be that they would reduce the costs of
creating the content, but that's increasingly unlikely - with movies
costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, music CDs that take
ages to produce then have multi-million dollar videos to go with the
lead tracks, nevermind all the merchandising and publicity - it's a
wonder that so many companies still think this is the best way of doing
business.

> This will lead to a meditation on the difference between open source
> and free software at some point (I knew I could get this thread back
> in the right direction!)

I'm still waiting for the first ad-sponsored Linux distro, I'm surprised
it hasn't happened yet (or has it?).

Damien McKenna