They'll Nickel and Dime You to Death!

We already pay premium prices for fast Internet service, we pay for the electricity to run the computer, we pay for the software and hardware, we pay for accessories, we pay for this, we pay for that... NOW we're going to have to start paying for more. Dig deep, people, we're not paying enough... will never pay enough... to appease the hungry entertainment beast...

The entertainment industry isn't happy. They're losing revenue as people start making the move from traditional tv watching, to online streaming. The industry has decided we're not watching enough commercials, not paying enough for the "privilege" to watch such mindless, brainless idiocy as: House, CSI, 30 Rock... and the list goes on and on. Why are we letting such a small group of elitists dictate? I admit that some of the writers out there today are amazingly talented, the artists who work on these shows do some good work, and some of this stuff is entertaining. Buy, why, for all the tea in China are we so obsessed? In actuality, these people work for us, not vice versa.

The beginning of this news story is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! I would NEVER tell one of my children, or anybody else, that they absolutely MUST have a TV.

"You're going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall," she told her daughter, according to comments she made at a Reuters event this week. "You have to have one." (She is Ms. Sweeney, who happens to be the president of the Disney-ABC Television Group.)

Nobody needs a TV.

As for the rest of the story, if it gets to be more and more expensive to watch TV on the computer, I won't be watching any. I refuse to pay premium prices for the mindless crap churned out by Hollywood. They gripe about throwing away revenue because they have to have that money for their huge mansions, fancy cars, and lavish lifestyle. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm tired of being expected to support those lavish lifestyles. (Not only that, but who has time to watch programming ten hours a day, anyway?!)

Just because someone is an actor or TV executive doesn't mean they deserve to live in excess. (Brangelina are no more special than you or I.) Who the hell came up with that idea anyway?! How did we get into all this economic trouble? Could it be... spend, spend, spend??? How much will we really be missing if we miss an episode, or all episodes, of House? Nothing. Maybe we'll even take that time to do something worthwhile like.... hell, I dunno... spend time with our families for a change.

In the end, no one is going to say, "I wish I'd spent more time watching TV."