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Internet free ride soon over

business.theage.com.au — WITHIN five years internet users will have to pay to access content now free."I absolutely believe the internet is passing from its free days into a paid system," he told the Advertising 2.0 conference in New York this week.

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  • samson7842, on 06/12/2009, -2/+26I love how there is a picture of Obama along with this title. As if to say, "Obama will start charging you for your previously free internet content." Obama isn't mentioned anywhere in the article. That picture is from a link, about something totally different, elsewhere on the page.

    Implicitly lie much?
  • inactive, on 06/13/2009, -0/+19We already pay for the Internet. What the *****?
  • xDynaBlade, on 06/12/2009, -0/+17*****.
  • MerchantofPanic, on 06/12/2009, -0/+12And for those who still dont get it, one more time, "Business models that rely on people paying for access to news content DO NOT WORK."
  • bubbameister33, on 06/13/2009, -0/+7I say we make our own internet.
  • inactive, on 06/13/2009, -0/+7I wonder if Barry Diller knows how the internet works. The internet isn't just one big server. It's like saying all cafes in the world will soon charge extra for sugar within 5 years. Absolute *****.
  • Yarkz, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4So... does this mean I will get a free 1gb/s connection?
  • anksed, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4Barry ***** Diller can sit back and watch traffic drop on every site that starts charging a subscription fee.
  • Hymnosi, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4but with gambling... and hookers!
  • linuxeventually, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4exactly. De-centralized mesh networking.
  • inactive, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4Then the internet would be passing from its "Free days" to its "Free of users days". It's never going to happen anyway. Sure I can see Youtube, myspace, facebook, twiter, Hulu, etc making a ***** move like that, but another will pop up in its place if they don't go back to free fast enough. It's exactly like pay porn on the internet. It exists, but it isn't necessarily the best, and most certainly is not the most popular.
  • amandanoelle, on 06/13/2009, -0/+3idiot. and the pic of obama? even more idiotic.
  • linuxeventually, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2Bandwidth is such a scam. It falls under the same category as SMS/texting. Electricity is certainly used in the transfer of data streams. There are hardware limitations regarding how much data can stream at a time including the the fiber optic cable and the processing power of the routers, hubs, switches, etc that are in between. ISP costs fall into four real categories - power/electric costs, paying themselves back for the hardware they purchased + employee salary, "licensing fees" paid if any only if they are a smaller teleco that is subleasing its connection from a larger teleco, and finally lining their wallets. Therefore bandwidth as a currency is a scam. Yes a few companies own the main servers that are responsible for connecting the continents (and islands, etc.) as wells as DNS servers some of whom feel they can charge for their service who then pass it along to end users that pay for servers as well as home users. Bandwidth caps are used as a means of lining their pockets and as control. ISPs still try to block "home servers" and the FCC jumped in bed with celluar providers in the States to cap data users at 5gb/month (that after charging $50-70+ a month for subpar speeds and spotty service).
  • inactive, on 06/13/2009, -1/+3i call shenanigans
  • erictheodore, on 06/13/2009, -2/+4yeah right, capitalist *****
  • Mawds, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2:starts laying cables:
  • Appox, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2We'll see,
  • the8thbit, on 06/13/2009, -0/+2They already do.

    More bandwidth costs more money. Now, however, they want to charge you for using the bandwidth you've paid for.

    It's pretty ***** up. ISPs will offer you connection speeds, but if you max out your bandwidth that YOU paid for, then they throttle your connection because you're using up to much of your bandwidth.
  • TheMachine1, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1http://www.interentfreeride.org/
    URL seems to be available. Be great for a torrent site.
  • Malik112099, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1Well, I have found a way to not pay for everything else I access/get on my pc. What makes the internet different?
  • NJSlacker, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
  • inactive, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1Touche. Site owners should realise; people hate paying for things. Especially over the internet. Get your revenue from somewhere else!
  • bthree78, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1Barry Diller? The same Barry Diller that brought us FOX tv and the USA network? Hmmm
  • inactive, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1Maybe it doesn't work yet...but something is going to have to change...and soon.
  • mickstephenson, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1In fact, forget the internet and the gambling!
  • the8thbit, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1So basically Diller thinks the Internet (more accurately the web) will start to model itself after pay to see porn sites?

    GEE, I SURE DO HAVE A HARD TIME FINDING FREE PORN
  • TheMachine1, on 06/13/2009, -1/+2We will put the whores back on Craigslist.
  • thePTS, on 06/13/2009, -1/+1He's probably kind of right. Spotify and similar services are slowly pushing that envelope, and you could imagine that many subscription services got together to offer you services in one package.

    Say, for instance, that your broadband service offered such subscriptions and content included in the price. I know that the older generation, who are currently connecting to the internets for the first time, would easily pay for services and convenience.

    It's all about establishing a purchase habit, and you feel less "cheated" if you know a lot of people who are paying for the same kind of service as you.

    It's going to happen, I think, but it's probably not going to affect the free internet as we know it..
  • BrandonJM, on 06/13/2009, -2/+1I have to disagree. The advertising model is busted and advertisers are focusing more on smaller, more contained social media campaigns, meaning their ad dollars are less available (on the whole) for those who rely on banners and other methods of advertising.

    The thing is, the ad-supported model has very little evidence to show it works, and when it DOES work, it works for sites with hundreds of thousands of visitors, which most content publishers will not achieve.

    So, it does work, and it has to work, otherwise you're going to see less interesting stuff online to digg.
  • inactive, on 06/13/2009, -3/+0Bandwidth hogs should have to pay more than everyone else.
  • inactive, on 06/13/2009, -3/+0Dude, it's just a picture, you're reading way too much into it.

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