it's been a while so I decided to make a post on this story over at Digg concerning our new content for subscribers only. Basically, we need to provide something for the people who are supporting us through monetary means, support them with something just for them. Revision3 Gazette is one of the things we're doing for our members and internally we're pleased. Over at the forums, people seem to be receptive in a good way. I'll address some concerns in the Digg comments.
As much as I love rev3, I refuse to pay for something which should be free...
Who are you to tell us how to distribute our content? Who are you to decide what should be free? Because you want it to be free means it should be free? I wish assholes would stop commenting on digg but we can't get it all, can we?
You may ask - "why should it be free?!!?", well, because rev3 is a BUISNESS, they have had Microsoft as a sponsor on Diggnation, Godaddy, etc..
Being a "BUISNESS" means you give things away for free? Please, guide us on more things we should so. We're thinking of taking the Oprah approach and buying cars for anyone who visits the site.
If kevin rose asked you to pay to use parts of Digg, would you acctully agree? Acctully, silly question..
Glad you realised it's a stupid question. Digg is not Revision3, Revision3 is not Digg.
Just dont feel the need to pay somebody, when they are making money out of me already!
Ahh, there we go. Lazy, "gimme gimme" attitude. How exactly are we "making money" out of you? You aren't paying us a thing. What you should do is not pay, accept that some things in life aren't free and in the case of Revision3, it's not expensive either.
i thought kevin said rev3 was going to ditch the subscription model? when is that actually going to happen.
I'm not actually in charge of Revision3. I helped start it but I'm way too disconnected with Digg, Pownce and other stuff. I recall saying this on Cranky Geeks but you know what, I can't randomly make announcements like that because I don't call the shots on this on my own. Not to mention I'm usually drunk or somewhat loopy when we're asked about this stuff. It may never happen.
i refuse to pay for rev3 content as long as they will continue to put sponsor ads in their podcasts. i agree with the double dipping mentioned above. rev3, decide how you want to make your money because you cant have it both ways. i downloaded the mov from a mirror and i recommend that everyone else does too.
Oh, refusing to pay? Shocker. To be honest, people asstingy A as yourself are not the target demographic of our shows, people with a little disposable income are. Again, who are you exactly to say how this business is run? We're hardly stiffing anyone. All our meaty shows are offered freely. We're putting some stuff out as a thank you to those who want to financially support us and because you can't put aside some allowance to become a member it's a problem? Here's a crazy thought: watch the free shows, live without what you aren't paying for.
Whenever Kevin & Co. hire a former TechTV employee, I think of these lyrics from "Still DRE":
"Hook my boys up with jobs, no more living hard, bbqs everyday.."
Stupid yeah, but the same song runs through my head each time.
Same here. Ramzi thanks you.
The reason Revision3 don't like sites like Mirrornation is simple, Revision3 makes money from its sponsors by saying how many people have downloaded episodes off the Revision3 website. Mirrornation doesn't tell Revision3 how many people have downloaded Revision3 shows off them early, this means Revision3 aren't making as much money as they should be getting from sponsors, in fact they are losing money. Just because it is a television network doesn't mean they're all evil corporate beings, they're all geeks like us.
Just remember that.
That's mostly it, yeah. For some reason or the other we don't like to lose money. We're evil and corporate like that.
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