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|| SportsShooter.com: Member Message Board Murdoch to charge for access to his newspapers... Derek Montgomery, Photographer Duluth | MN | USA | Posted: 8:45 PM on 08.05.09 ->> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/06/rupert-murdoch-website-charges We've all read about these experiments before, but I wonder just how this will end up working out. These are some big web sites. Should be interesting to see what happens.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Robert Scheer, Photographer Indianapolis | IN | USA | Posted: 9:05 PM on 08.05.09 ->> Woo Hoo!!! Bout time. Glad he's going first though.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (1) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Derick Hingle, Photographer Hammond | LA | USA | Posted: 11:15 PM on 08.05.09 ->> tons of comments on the article no one seems to say this is good, should be interesting, I don't think it will work though.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions David Harpe, Photographer Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 11:41 PM on 08.05.09 ->> All you have to do is see what happens when photographers/musicians/etc. try to charge a fair rate for their work on the Internet to see how this will play. You get piracy and a plethora of free/dirt cheap choices that suddenly appear. And that's with content that you might want to look at/listen to more than once. With news content - which pretty much loses most of it's value once you read it - it will be even worse. There is not enough uniqueness in their content to drive enough people to pay for it. Their competition is to blame to some extent. Example - let's say a Murdoch paper has an "exclusive" that such and such political figure has been having an affair with such and such employee. Their (free) competition is simply going to report the same thing, crediting the Murdoch property - until they can build up the story on their own. Once that's done they'll have the same info to share as the Murdoch property. No reason for someone to pay for access when they know they'll be getting it for free elsewhere. The media properties could agree to play nice with each other and all go paid at the same time, but that would be collusion...which is illegal. I'm not sure exactly how it will play out, but as long as alternate sources have the same basic content for free, the folks charging for it are doomed.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Daniel Putz, Photographer Jefferson | MD | USA | Posted: 9:35 AM on 08.06.09 ->> more comments: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1327165  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Michael Fischer, Photographer Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 8:35 AM on 08.07.09 ->> The WSJ, which Murdoch recently purchased, does the best job of charging for content imho. Some of it is free, some of it you get charged for. I subscribe to the paper and that doesn't qualify you to access the online material - that requires a seperate subscription.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Add your comments... If you'd like to add your comments to this thread, use this form. You need to be an active (paying) member of SportsShooter.com in order to post messages to the system. NOTE: If you would like to report a problem you've found within the SportsShooter.com website, please let us know via the 'Contact Us' form, which alerts us immediately. It is not guaranteed that a member of the staff will see your message board post. Thread Title: Murdoch to charge for access to his newspapers... Thread Started By: Derek Montgomery Message: Member Login: Password: Return to --> Message Board Main Index

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