The end of freedom?

[DEATHMASTER]

lol http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090509/tc_afp/usmediaindustrynewspapersinternetnewscorp

 

[The Monkey]

Just stop visiting the web sites of the newspapers he owns.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

pretty much.

 

[Survivr]

Think logically. You pay for games = ROMs. You pay for CD's = Limewire. You pay for News = Blogs.

There will always be people who want the net to be free and the news to be free, so there is nothing to worry about.

 

[Raziaar]

Fox - Open Source

 

[PvtRyan]

Why don't bad guys like Murdoch ever get hit by stray chainsaws? Seriously, 78 is a nice age, now go die and let sane people take control.

 

[Ennui]

I can't wait for the ensuing legal shitstorm when Murdoch tries to go after people quoting entire pay-to-read articles in forum threads and the like. Also who gives a ****?

 

[Raziaar]

Group Buy!

Not hardly...

 

[Warped]

If he charges people for stuff after they've been getting it for free expect a lot of people to mass produce the same material for free on the net. And after all less people are reading print, imagine less people (our generation) skipping the online news as well and just simply watching the news unfold on VIDEO! TV/VIDEO won't be dying for a long time imo, but we'll still have all the other source material available

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Eh, so a few more papers go subscription for the nets. Murdoch seems to think he's going to set some kind of global trend, I'll believe it (and do something about it) when I see it. I don't think Murdoch understands how grass roots based most of the internet media really is, it's an entirely different market than print papers or even broadcast journalism.

 

[Sledgehammer]

The Sun?

I certainly won't miss it.

 

[Godron]

Think logically. You pay for games = ROMs. You pay for CD's = Limewire. You pay for News = Blogs.

There will always be people who want the net to be free and the news to be free, so there is nothing to worry about.

The news can't be free, someone has to pay the journalists. Advertising isn't cutting it, so I guess I don't really blame him for this. Can't say I'm happy about it, but then I don't really know jack shit about business so I don't know of any viable alternatives.
I'm hoping that some news sites will stay free and open, and traffic will simply move to those sites at the expense of Murdoch's. But that assumes those news sites can continue to function without charging people for reading online, which according to the article they can't.

 

[Minister]

I usually read the BBC News anyway.

No matter how hard I try, my mother won't stop buying the Daily Mail. Although, I must say it's incredibly funny, even if that humour is unintentional.