guardian.co.uk— News Corp boss hails iPad as potential saviour of newspapers, but says industry must stand up for itself and charge for content.
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how much is your internet bill. how much is your wireless data bill.how much does it cost to produce information.Regardless of what is "meant" information is absolutely not free.
"However, some critics say consumers are now too used to getting online news for free and will not pay subscriptions in big enough numbers to form a viable business model for quality journalism. Murdoch dismissed this fear, saying consumers could be forced to change their habits. "When they have got nowhere else to go they will start paying."He's right, just look at the music, game, and movie industry, they force people to pay, and now nobody has annnyyy way to get the content for free. also, just looking at the picture pretty much discredits anything this douche bag has to say about digital media.
Even if he gets NYT to follow, he's unlikely to get all the news papers across America to follow suit, and those that don't are likely to get a strong up-tick on their ad-revenue.And then there's the international news; the BBC and other pretty-well respected news sources would presumably be very unlikely to want to get blocked from google.
mabsark: I'd be curious to see how much a Delhi office costs the BBC. Or how much a flight from NY to Beirut costs. When they get there, the reporters presumably have no costs. They can report using pencils and sleep on your couch if they need.If it costs nothing to promote music, why do the major labels do promo videos? Think they enjoy spending for the sake of it? Check "radio promotion" on Google or Bing to get an idea of the reality of trying to break through.In my book, time + effort = money. Because the time I'd spend friending people on MySpace is time I'm not earning a living (or composing, come to think of it). You'll find that the crew that filmed Dave Tyrrell probably works along the same principle. Tyrrell's quite cool, by the way. A bit latter-day New Order.
Okay, I'll acknowledge I don't have a full grasp of the legality of the situation. But people HAVE lost alwsuits for both downloading and uploading, so not all judges agree with you here. And remember I said 'basically stealing'. I don't care about the legal definition of theft, I care about the common definition, which for this situation is as simple as "I created something, you now have it, I didn't give you permission to have it, so you stole it".This is all getting away from my point though, which was that there are specific musicians who used to make money on album sales that can't make as much anymore, even though the number of listeners remains the same or higher. With newspapers, their actual customer count is being reduced because of other free news sources.I don't feel bad for newspapers losing money, since the cause of their loss is competition. Musicians aren't losing money to competition, they're losing money to technology. Not that there isn't also more competition among musicians now that anyone with a halfway decent computer can record an album..
Why doesn't Google just delist ALL of his corporate sites whenever some slacked jawed redneck types in Fox News, up comes NBC, CNN, ABC etc, etc. Let's see how he likes that.
clickmyfaceApr 7, 2010
how much is your internet bill. how much is your wireless data bill.how much does it cost to produce information.Regardless of what is "meant" information is absolutely not free.
menosdabearApr 7, 2010
"However, some critics say consumers are now too used to getting online news for free and will not pay subscriptions in big enough numbers to form a viable business model for quality journalism. Murdoch dismissed this fear, saying consumers could be forced to change their habits. "When they have got nowhere else to go they will start paying."He's right, just look at the music, game, and movie industry, they force people to pay, and now nobody has annnyyy way to get the content for free. also, just looking at the picture pretty much discredits anything this douche bag has to say about digital media.
wolfkeeperApr 8, 2010
Even if he gets NYT to follow, he's unlikely to get all the news papers across America to follow suit, and those that don't are likely to get a strong up-tick on their ad-revenue.And then there's the international news; the BBC and other pretty-well respected news sources would presumably be very unlikely to want to get blocked from google.
praveen30Apr 8, 2010
everyone is an enemy when you are google :P
writieApr 8, 2010
mabsark: I'd be curious to see how much a Delhi office costs the BBC. Or how much a flight from NY to Beirut costs. When they get there, the reporters presumably have no costs. They can report using pencils and sleep on your couch if they need.If it costs nothing to promote music, why do the major labels do promo videos? Think they enjoy spending for the sake of it? Check "radio promotion" on Google or Bing to get an idea of the reality of trying to break through.In my book, time + effort = money. Because the time I'd spend friending people on MySpace is time I'm not earning a living (or composing, come to think of it). You'll find that the crew that filmed Dave Tyrrell probably works along the same principle. Tyrrell's quite cool, by the way. A bit latter-day New Order.
writieApr 8, 2010
10rdishtar: "A federally subsidized state press with an elected committee oversight ". Sounds like we're re-inventing Pravda.
newerakbApr 8, 2010
Okay, I'll acknowledge I don't have a full grasp of the legality of the situation. But people HAVE lost alwsuits for both downloading and uploading, so not all judges agree with you here. And remember I said 'basically stealing'. I don't care about the legal definition of theft, I care about the common definition, which for this situation is as simple as "I created something, you now have it, I didn't give you permission to have it, so you stole it".This is all getting away from my point though, which was that there are specific musicians who used to make money on album sales that can't make as much anymore, even though the number of listeners remains the same or higher. With newspapers, their actual customer count is being reduced because of other free news sources.I don't feel bad for newspapers losing money, since the cause of their loss is competition. Musicians aren't losing money to competition, they're losing money to technology. Not that there isn't also more competition among musicians now that anyone with a halfway decent computer can record an album..
nydwarfApr 8, 2010
Why doesn't Google just delist ALL of his corporate sites whenever some slacked jawed redneck types in Fox News, up comes NBC, CNN, ABC etc, etc. Let's see how he likes that.