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And we slide into closed and centralized places ... that is scary.

• anonymousab 11y ago
  Or people continue to provide compelling content for free, if only more temporarily.
• Animats 11y ago
  Every business will still have a web site for their own products and services. Amazon won't have a problem. Wikipedia will go on. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist are already pay sites, and they're almost the only news sites with actual reporters. Pay TV will continue to fund news networks, which will have sites with additional content to get people to watch their TV. All we'll lose are the millions of bottom-feeder sites which take content in, hang ads on it, and hope to get paid. No big loss.
  • thedz 11y ago
    As the article mentions, 40% of NY Times' revenue is still provided by advertising.
  • dingaling 11y ago
    > and The Economist are already pay sites, and they're almost the only news sites with actual reporters. The Economist doesn't actually have on-staff reporters, they rely on correspondents around the World who sell their articles either ad hoc or on a commission basis. They do have staff who write editorials, but not the news articles. The Economist is also happy to ( try to ) utterly bombard me with ads on their website despite being a subscriber. They even had a crawl-up SUBSCRIBE NOW! ad at one point when I was logged-in.