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You know what, Rupert? Go for it. Don't bother writing about it and talking about it. Do it. Put up your pay wall and see who pays. Until then. . . .
by symesc 17y ago
You know what, Rupert?
Go for it.
Don't bother writing about it and talking about it.
Do it.
Put up your pay wall and see who pays.
Until then. . . .
- scj 17y agoHe kind of mentioned that when he criticized fair use. He puts up a pay wall, one person buys a subscription, blogs about it, and there isn't much he can do. He can't copyright the news after all, only his journalists' expression of it.
- forensic 17y agoThat applies to news but not necessarily to in-depth reporting. Murdoch is right that people will pay for quality. But there are almost zero commercial writing institutions that produce quality.
- MikeCapone 17y ago> But there are almost zero commercial writing institutions that produce quality. I only subscribe to the Economist.
- forensic 17y agoYep that's why I said "almost" I had The Economist in mind :P
- hristov 17y agoThis is not exactly the case. It is true that one cannot copyright facts, but I believe there are some legal doctrines that protect news papers that brake new stories. See International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U.S. 215 (1918). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._Associated_Press http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._A...) So I think if someone just paraphrased a pay site's stories, the pay site would be able to stop them.
- hristov 17y agoAlso, don't bother complaining about Google news. Just change your robots.txt file already and then the evil Google will stop aggregating your precious precious content.
- cabalamat 17y agoYep. STFU Rupe and put your money where your mouth is.
- Scott_MacGregor 17y agoI agree, put up your pay wall and see who pays. The drawback is it will most likely show that really not very many people are interested enough in their product to actually pay for it. Meaning their stock prices will reflect the true circulation. I suspect they know this and fear that this move just might be the death nail in their coffin. Time will tell. Instead of digging in their heels and believing they can force their product on the market maybe they should try to iterate.
- joe_the_user 17y agoIf News Corp put up a pay wall on its content and no body paid, the world would be much better off.