Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 00:41:54 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: mph@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources Message-ID: <19980504004154.04264@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199805032226.PAA11331@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Sun, May 03, 1998 at 03:26:23PM -0700 References: <19980503230438.48318@follo.net> <199805032226.PAA11331@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 03:26:23PM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 01:51:41PM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> > > mph 1998/05/03 13:51:40 PDT
> > >
> > > ports/www/ijb - Imported sources
> > > Update of /home/ncvs/ports/www/ijb
> > > In directory freefall.freebsd.org:/d/users/mph/junkbuster
> > >
> > > Log Message:
> > > Import of ijb, the Internet Junkbuster. It's an HTTP proxy that
> > > strips advertisements and so on.
> >
> > Should't this be under ATT (for "Automated Theft Tool")? ;-)
> >
> > Refusing to download ads from the WWW is very bad practice. Those ads are
> > paying for the service you're using. I'm not even certain we should have
> > the above program as a port - I don't think we'd have a 'automated
> > crack-on-download' tool, for instance, and this is actually fairly similar.
> >
>
> Eivind,
>
> hmm....if i understand what you are saying then
> 1. i should watch the commercials on TV rather than getting
> a sandwich or changing the channel.
> 2. if i record a program of TV, i shouldnt fast-forward thru
> the commercials.
Let me rephrase this for TV:
If you're a producer of TV-sets, including an option to automatically
remove all advertising so that all programs run continously[1] would
be unwise, as it would be bad for the health of the medium. As a
consumer, skipping on a case-by-case basis is (of course) OK.
Besides, the payment system for TV is different from the one for
web-sites. Websites are paid per display of an advert (ie, per
viewer) - TV channels are paid bulk or per slot they display the ad in
(which reach an unknown number of viewers).
Eivind.
[1] Yes, this is impossible for TV, but it is just what ijb does for
web-sites.
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