Comments on: Free Access to Pay Websites http://www.skribeproductions.com/2009/02/27/free-access-to-pay-websites/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-access-to-pay-websites Skribe Productions Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: skribe http://www.skribeproductions.com/2009/02/27/free-access-to-pay-websites/#comment-467 skribe Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:03 +0000 http://www.skribeproductions.com/?p=979#comment-467 There are all sorts of benefits to online newspapers. They can be constantly updated, they can include video and other multimedia and they can be accessed anywhere there is a net connection. And there is a prevailing mentality amongst control media types that the news is theres and if you want it you have to pay for it. They even want google to pay for the privilege of driving readers to their site. So yeah, it's out there and not exactly uncommon. Whether it will be swept away in a tsunami of free alternatives is yet to be seen. I think a lot will depend on what legislation gets past and what alternative revenue models are unveiled. As for downloadable music, when you say free do you mean pirated or ripped from CD? Downloadable music has one great advantage over CDs in that you can just buy one song rather than an entire album and not all CDs will play in computer CD players because of DRM. Some even infect computers with viruses. Yes, I'm looking at you Sony. There are all sorts of benefits to online newspapers. They can be constantly updated, they can include video and other multimedia and they can be accessed anywhere there is a net connection. And there is a prevailing mentality amongst control media types that the news is theres and if you want it you have to pay for it. They even want google to pay for the privilege of driving readers to their site. So yeah, it’s out there and not exactly uncommon. Whether it will be swept away in a tsunami of free alternatives is yet to be seen. I think a lot will depend on what legislation gets past and what alternative revenue models are unveiled.

As for downloadable music, when you say free do you mean pirated or ripped from CD? Downloadable music has one great advantage over CDs in that you can just buy one song rather than an entire album and not all CDs will play in computer CD players because of DRM. Some even infect computers with viruses. Yes, I’m looking at you Sony.

]]> By: Wolfie Rankin http://www.skribeproductions.com/2009/02/27/free-access-to-pay-websites/#comment-466 Wolfie Rankin Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:50:28 +0000 http://www.skribeproductions.com/?p=979#comment-466 My eyebrows rise a bit when I hear of a concept like this, what makes an online newspaper better, and so much better than others, that would make you pay to read it when there's so much free information out there on exactly the same stories? I am bemused also at people who buy mp3s online, I find it quite strange. you're paying for low-grade audio which you can get free elsewhere anyway, and the record company is still getting the artists profits... and yet, some people actually buy the darn things. Wolfie! My eyebrows rise a bit when I hear of a concept like this, what makes an online newspaper better, and so much better than others, that would make you pay to read it when there’s so much free information out there on exactly the same stories? I am bemused also at people who buy mp3s online, I find it quite strange. you’re paying for low-grade audio which you can get free elsewhere anyway, and the record company is still getting the artists profits… and yet, some people actually buy the darn things.

Wolfie!

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