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Why we Charge for Downloads
By | January 1, 1970
posted by Ken Taylor
A lot of our listeners are unhappy that our new download service is not a free service, but is instead a subscription based service. Some have written that’s it’s anti-democratic of us to charge, that’s it’s contrary to the the mission of Stanford University, that we’re just being capitalist pigs. One apparently former listener even wrote that he was so offended by us charging for our download service that he would no longer listen even to our free stream, despite the fact that Philosophy Talk is one of his favorite radio programs and despite the fact that we are not broadcast in his listening area. Talk about cutting of your nose to spite your face!
Because the reaction from some of you has been so intense, I thought I’d take this opportunity to explain just why we really need to be charging […]
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