PaddyJoe
09-04-2010, 03:27 AM
I think he's fighting a losing battle. Subscription may work for very specialised content and comment but Joe Surfer is not going to pay for news and common or garden comment.
"We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing … there is a law of copyright and they recognise it," Murdoch told a packed audience of students, journalists and other media professionals.
He said search engines had tapped into a "river of gold" by aggregating content but that the days of free news had to come to an end. "They take [news content] for nothing. They have got this very clever business model," he said.
He sounds like an stage coach owner in the old west moaning about the arrival of the new fangled railroad.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/07/rupert-murdoch-google-paywalls-ipad
"We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing … there is a law of copyright and they recognise it," Murdoch told a packed audience of students, journalists and other media professionals.
He said search engines had tapped into a "river of gold" by aggregating content but that the days of free news had to come to an end. "They take [news content] for nothing. They have got this very clever business model," he said.
He sounds like an stage coach owner in the old west moaning about the arrival of the new fangled railroad.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/07/rupert-murdoch-google-paywalls-ipad