As things stand with all fee mass media, radio, television, internet fora: When something online is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. The advertisers are the clients, audiences are a commodity: and are likely to be jettisoned as soon as their usefulness turns into a liability.
Ha! They don't have the nerves, as they know we'll sue the pants of them!
Why?
More specifically, the company [IMDb] – which was set up in 1990 by Bristol-based IT worker Col Needham and later sold to Amazon – said that a shift to social media had made the message boards less vital; users, they said, had “migrated to IMDb’s social media accounts as the primary place they choose to post comments and communicate with IMDb’s editors and one another”.
I don't see how they can guarantee anything of the sort. Why would they anyway? It's a free service, so to be frank Amazon doesn't owe us any such promise. If it was a paid service it wouldn't be guaranteed either; the most we might get is a notice before it was shuttered.
Sue them for what?
Mark, you need to call the repair man immediately. It is obvious that your sarcasm detector has ceased to function.
Amazon.com inc does not even have any responsibility to either keep up dpreview.com at all. Whether as owners of IMDB they decided that IMDB management should stop their forums is an unknown . Or even to keep selling cameras at all for that matter
In the case of IMDB part of the reason seem to be that the trolling by part of the so-called community started running against the ethics and the morals the company would consider theirs.
Is that more sarcasm? I can't tell.
It wouldn't surprise me if he was serious. I work very closely with the Call Center Manager of my company, people make all sorts of bizarre claims.
The zebra ate my iPhone...
Well, I got a lesson...
They didn't really die, though, they simply relocated to Facebook.
That was an IMDb decision, not an 'Amazon' decision. If these forums get closed it'll be our decision. And we have no intention of closing them
