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Murdoch: Web sites to charge for content - Democratic Underground

Source: CNN Speaking on a conference call as News Corporation announced a 47 percent slide in quarterly profits to $755 million, Murdoch said the current free access business model favored by most content providers was flawed. "We are now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content and it is clear to many newspapers that the current model is malfunctioning," the News Corp.

Chairman and CEO said. "We have been at the forefront of that debate and you can confidently presume that we are leading the way in finding a model that maximises revenues in return for our shareholders...

The current days of the Internet will soon be over." Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/05/07/murdoch.web.cont...

Was that by any chance followed by a bale of evil laughter? I'm going to file this one with... "There will never be a world wide need for more than 4 computers." - IBM "64K of RAM is more than enough" - Bill Gates

Be he does not know what hubris is, though he's embodying it.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_mi... And some people believe that may well come true. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/comput... Now, thanks to the explosion in computing power and network bandwidth, the barriers to building a universal computer are falling.

Very bright people can talk seriously about a world where there are only five computers - or even just a single one - that all of us share.

It's not a world that Thomas J Watson would recognise, even if it represents the future he accidentally foretold.

Including DUers.




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