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"What if every news site in the country erected a paywall on the same day?"
- bediger 16y agoI live in the USA. I'd really like to see this tried. First, if it were anything other than "The Internet", this would almost certainly be considered a price-fixing cartel. I'm guessing a unified paywall would trigger a lot of lawsuits from public interest groups, and maybe even "The Authorities". Second, even though it's "The Internet", and even in the USA it might not be considered price-fixing for whatever unearthly reason a scaredy-cat judge might come up with, I'd like to see the response. This would be a huge incentive to create new, free or ad-supported sources of journalism, or at least journalism-like content. Anyone with a Droid could potentially become a reporter.