Malcolm makes some interesting points that ideas are making money vs. stuff. The only challenge I had in trying to see the bigger picture of profiting from the Internet was how does the little guy do it? All of the companies mentioned are multi-billion dollar companies with hundreds if not thousands of employees to make this all possible. I realize they all started at one point with an idea and probably one or two people, but it’s hard to see how the majority of sites could go from free to for profit with consumers going along happily for the ride.
The Bloomberg articles makes a very confusing argument for paid content on the web. Why on earth should you pay a newspaper for reposting their article when their article is free to begin with? On top of that if you post something from that site it could either draw more traffic to the news site through a link or make someone want to go directly to the site after reading the article to learn more. I think it’s a silly idea that will never take off. Plus who is going to be the watch dog over this to make sure all the zillion of websites out there are following the rule?
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