Monday 29 January 2007

Handy rip-off

By Maximilian Morgenbessser

Nowadays there is a really big problem. I´m talking about handy rip-off. Many TV-shows – and of course the publisher of these shows – earn quite a lot of money because of votings. Who has to pay this? Teenagers and people who like watching TV are the victims of this. Mostly they have to pay very expensive tariffs. Hower, it is evil because so people´s emotions are used in order to earn money dubiously.
Mostly teenagers who have only little money have to pay this. There is the beginning of this problem. These people – the evil ones – take money from others who have just little money. As a result, many angry or worried parents shout at their children. But why? As some people want to earn more and more money, a lot of other people has to suffer.

Here is a nice example:

At the show “Starmania” 600.000 young people voted for their favourite singers. The tariff was 0.50 €. So the ORF (official Austrian TV-Station) earns 300.000 €.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

It is realy terrible that we and our computers and our e-mails are not protected from other "handy ripp of". How to protect? We are glad that you do this work.

Unknown said...

It is same in our country that "handy rip-off" is very "popular". I think it is terrible.

sallija.kaposta said...

I think it's terrible.