Originally by: Acidictadpole

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Edited by: Acidictadpole on 02/08/2007 04:49:10
I find it funny that you guys are still arguing what Pay-Per-View actually means. Considering it's just a marketing term for something that you pay to watch, which all companies use since it's so well known.

In MY Opinion, PPV is exactly what the title says, you Pay everytime Per View. Which is exactly what Jalipo does, the real reason that companies allow you to keep things for 24 hours is because of possible system failure/reason may come up why you can't watch it. They just do it to avoid getting thousands of customer service calls from those people who had their cable cut out, got interupted by phone/door/kid/whatever, or any other reason they may need to start the movie again. It doesn't cost the company any extra to hold it over for 24 hours, and what are the chances of you watching a movie twice in 24 hours anyway? They don't lose anything from it, except the CS calls (which technically is a gain, since they don't need to worry about that crap).

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sure PPV is legal, but I don't think EVETV flags it enough that you only pay for 1 time, since the common form for pay TV on internet is that you can rewatch old stuff you have bought (or if it's an active subscription you can see all new and old content).

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I don't understand how you can even come to the conclusion that something like this can be illegal. They aren't offering a service that let's you rewatch stuff, sure it's misleading the way they conveniently leave out the fact it's not like conventional movie sites. But I would like you to sit down and watch some commercials on television, especially infomercials and the odd banking one, and tell me if they say anything bad about their product/service.

Notice all the happy stuff they tell you? And there's no sad details? Yea, you got it, that's business. Read the fine print and realise all the crappy stuff about the product they have to legally tell you, but don't want to turn you away before you even spend money coming to investigate it.

I think the term / phrase I would like you to learn is "Buyer Beware", repeat it at night if you have to. But just because you spend your money on something that may not be truthful or completely legal, doesn't make it 100% definite you're getting your money back. The other party may end up getting caught eventually, but it was your fault for getting into the venture, and you could pay for it.

Do not pay for anything until you know the full extent of the product. Jalipo offers a service, that service allows you to pay per minute of their streaming bandwidth, which means that you pay for every minute that you watch the video they are hosting. So technically, those people who are downloading it / ripping it to rewatch later are breaking their ToS (I didn't read it, but I would be sure they would have something about it in there) because they aren't paying to watch minutes of a show they got from their site.

Once again EVETV.. Jalipo seems like a terrible service, if you are looking at trying to improve, I sit @ coldfront as Acidictadpole. If you PM me I will always get it, and will respond eventually. I can offer suggestions and let you know why they work above other methods, and I can also tell you which things would be bad for you as a show when it comes to propagating your videos.

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