[LINK] TV-style adverts arrive on web

[Adam Todd]

>    Unicast, and software giant, Microsoft. But though users may find them
>    annoying, they could ultimately reduce the overall number of web
>    advertisements in the long term...
>    But 30 second-long TV ads that appear at random whenever you click on
>    certain websites, will be harder to ignore than pop-up ads.
>       <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3453663.stm>

Great, so now to view a web page, instead of waiting for the Java, 
Javascript, large graphics and all the rest to download over the 2 minutes 
it takes, I now have to wait an additional 5 minutes for the 30 second ad 
to download, at my expense mind you, and then play.

I think the advertisers can pay me to watch their ads, whilst I pay by the 
Byte.

>Some interesting feedback, including "I'm not likely to be a good customer
>if someone annoys the hell out of me" and the predictable "The days of free
>internet are over. Stop holding onto the past."

Free Internet was over in 1995 :)