Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sp332 4828 days ago
That's addressed in the article.

And Sky get this. If you wait another 24 hours, the show appears on “Sky Anytime”, and you can watch it with no adverts and at any time you please. The adverts are an additional tax on the consumer for having the audacity to watch the programme when Sky decides.

Are you playing by the rules? Yes? Are you paying for the show? Yes. Are you watching it when we say? Yes? Are you watching it where we say you can? Yes? Good for you, here’s some adverts as a punishment.

And people wonder why that business model is failing…

1 comments

I read that. I was addressing this:

> The adverts are an additional tax on the consumer for having the audacity to watch the programme when Sky decides.