maybe those people who do not want to subscribe (as is their right) be made to view some ad's while waiting for the download to begin, i have seen several sites like this that have a countdown timer for anything up to 1 minute which shows and ad and then the download begins.
Good idea... and add to that sound... the sound of chalk being dragged across a blackboard for the duration of the ad and the download.
Or how about some insipid and sickening music? We have a show called A Country Practice... the theme music to that oughta do the trick. Yup, it's so woefully insipid and nauseating that frequent drive-bys will be queuing to get subscriptions.
The Seven Network here is Oz is repeating A Country Practice for the forty twelfth time and ...GRRRRR, mrs starkers tunes into it every night and it annoys the crapper out of me. Frankly, I'd rather use a pair of rusty pliers and remove my own teeth without anaesthetic than listen to that abysmally sickening theme music... but every night without fail, there it is, wafting from the loungeroom to the study and driving me to distraction.
So if there are any trypos, speeling mistakes and/or non-compos-mentis passages in any of my posts between midnight and 1.00am Oz time, blame mrs starkers. At least she could put it on mute during to opening and closing credits... but NO, and now I need another pill, just thinking about it.
Personally, I think it's payback for the time I had the Mahna Mahna Mahnamahna CD on repeat for an extended period.. like about a week... and even began singing it in my sleep. It's said that paybacks are a bitch, but the ACP theme music is going beyond payback and borders on extreme mental cruelty, so yeah, non-subscribers just here for skins should have to hear it for the duration... why should I be the only one to suffer!!!
