I see what you mean Alex - its a never ending battle/balance between free and pay (one can not function optimal without the other). That is why I think that hosted galleries will be good, because then we will atleast have someone in charge of the galleries, who want to make money from them...
Hosted Galleries will cut the "smallest fish" out of the foodchain (free tgp submiter - only doing this, because he wants to show his private porn collection).
TGPs will accept more ads with hosted galleries since they get a cut from the gallery income. TGPs who have really bad traffic will ofcourse not make any money from this, and hopefully hosted galleries owners will start to drop these TGPs (getting their bandwidth bill and see the zero clicks in their outgoing logs should do the trick... ok, maybe that will not happen at first, but it would be nice to see some more policing by hosted gallery makers).
Last edited by Rolo at Feb 10 2003, 09:54 AM
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