>>Actually, the distribution model was very efficient - it delivered everywhere, didn't it? But it went down the drain to the happy grounds where media go when their business model starts to rely on advertising. That seems to be the kiss of death for any medium. They may thrive for a while, but will eventually and inevitably screw up their audience and stop selling content. Their content will become the icing between the ads.
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>One of the problems is the complete lack of moral standards, of honesty. Like, just one example of ads that appear on the Internet, even on some otherwise reputable Web pages: "Congratulations, you are the 999,999 visitor" (A LIE). And it continues: "You won!" (another LIE - it just takes me to a lottery Web site).
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>I mean, can't some authority impose at least a minimum of truthfulness in public advertising?
The trouble is that you'd have a lot of trouble trying to prove the page existed, unless you had the detectives watching you while you went there, and some sort of low-level packet log that would catch them raw - because screenshots can be faked. Almost anything can be faked, for that matter. This is not a newspaper where a paper trail remains.
So we come to the second thing that screws our lives. 1) ads, 2) TANJ (there ain't no justice)