Content tax?
The theme is back:
Magid: News tax needed.
NYT candyass poll: Half would pay for news:
Paradoxically, in every country, the people who were willing to pay the most for news online were the people who already pay the most for news: avid newspaper readers.
I fail to see the paradox. This is not going away. An entire industry has retooled itself into bankruptcy. It refuses to consider that those who deliver the bits which are its product, translated, are profiting from having captive millions of subscribers who only go online because "content" is there.
We won't pay because we've paid.
Big Pipes profit, content makers starve. Is there an economic vomit other than that which I, doglike, keep returning to?
Labels: big content, big pipe, content, ilecs, internet service providers, isp
posted by Tom Matrullo at Monday, November 16, 2009
2 Comments:
Big Pipes profit, content makers starve. Is there an economic vomit other than that which I, doglike, keep returning to?
An interesting and perplexing question ... if we (or I) think that the point you make is correct, and deeply problematic, what are we to do ?
Boycott publishing, consuming and interacting online ?
Sure, why not ?
But / and, what will that bring us beyond self-satisfaction at maintaining integrity with a moral position ... which I do not think is any small thing.
Like I said. perplexing (at least for me).
It doesn't seem the content folks accept the premise that the pipes are inseparable from what they deliver. If they could see that, well then they'd make demands - not on us, but on the pipers. But how to get them to see.
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