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'Free' Internet is Over. It's Time to Pay Up!
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23.05.2015
Everyone wants everything on the internet for free. Just ask the New York Times.
Over the years, the Times website has gone from free, to paid, back to free, and, finally, back to paid. Well, mostly paid. For now, anyway.
By practice and by ethos, the Internet has generally been a place where free content thrived and paid — news, music — struggled. The information superhighway had few toll booths. Yet the Internet won't survive until people start paying for the things they find on it, which cost money to produce and distribute. This is a particularly painful reality for media companies, who debate paywalls with the intensity of medieval bishops parsing scripture. According to a report that emerged Friday, Entertainment Weekly will soon be putting up a paywall, as will various other Time Inc. properties.
Over the years, the Times website has gone from free, to paid, back to free, and, finally, back to paid. Well, mostly paid. For now, anyway.
By practice and by ethos, the Internet has generally been a place where free content thrived and paid — news, music — struggled. The information superhighway had few toll booths. Yet the Internet won't survive until people start paying for the things they find on it, which cost money to produce and distribute. This is a particularly painful reality for media companies, who debate paywalls with the intensity of medieval bishops parsing scripture. According to a report that emerged Friday, Entertainment Weekly will soon be putting up a paywall, as will various other Time Inc. properties.
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