On May 19, 8:24 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
> > this bit o' wisdom:
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> >> San Jose Mercury News: No One Reads Us Any More, So Let's Start Charging
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> >>http://techdirt.com/articles/20090517/2210564914.shtml
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> >> Sony Pictures CEO: Nothing Good Has Come From The Internet
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> >>http://techdirt.com/articles/20090515/1301064900.shtml
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> >> Lawyers: To Save Newspapers, Let's Destroy Pretty Much Everything Else Good
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> >>http://techdirt.com/articles/20090517/0236594905.shtml
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> > As Lessig points out in Code v 2, the Internet can hand perfect control of
> > copyrighted content to the copyright owner, all but eliminating fair use and
> > access to content that one can take for granted in the physical domain.
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> > Hence, information commons such as GNU and wikipedia are ever more
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> And also more popular. The more the conglomerates close down, they more people
> they'll turn away.
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> Charge to read CNN? Then people will read another source.
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> Closed access to academic journals? Then people will just Google for what's
> public, maybe Wikipedia.
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> They fight a losing battle. Information wants to be free.
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Information may want to be free, but who is going to host it? I think
you've mentioned Microsoft Vista being #1 on Time's list of failures,
but YouTube is on there too. They can't continue to lose money and
host all those videos. The Internet is not a free enterprise. You have
to pay for bandwidth. So how do you propose these large sites pay for
their bandwidth without charging people? Ads? Ads haven't generated
enough revenue so far. What about employees? Are they supposed to work
for free? I understand that it's trivial to blog that an inside source
told you that Bill Gates is funding the Somali pirates, but actual
reporters are needed to get actual facts and report the news to these
sites. How is that going to work if they're not paid? Unless
everything in the world was free all of a sudden, people aren't going
to work for free.
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