Scary when even a plesiosaur as deadly and unblinking as Rupert Murdoch can’t bring himself to accept the implications of his own premises.
“Nobody is making money with free content on the web except search,” said Murdoch, noting the trend is particularly worrisome in the newspaper publishing, where News Corp. owns a variety of assets. “People are used to reading everything on the net for free, and that’s going to have to change.”
[ no, it's not ...]
…”Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights? If you have a brand like The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, you don’t have to,” said Murdoch. “You can say thanks but no thanks.”
[ no, you can't ...]
via Article – WSJ.com.
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