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By: Media, Death, Life, Change, Business, Blah « Scissors Kick

Media, Death, Life, Change, Business, Blah « Scissors Kick — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:11:07 +0000

[...] Media, Death, Life, Change, Business, Blah “The NY Times has announced a new ‘metered model’ for 2011, showing that Rupert Murdoch is not the only publish magnate struggling to cope with the ‘internet.”’ While the Times has avoided confronting Google, a wise move given the current cooing of this monopolistic privacy shredding behemoth, the ‘metered approach’ brings to mind two things: 1920’s prohibition and the maginot line.” (futfanatico) [...]

By: Adrian Russell · Busy days, Busey nights

Adrian Russell · Busy days, Busey nights — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:24:30 +0000

[...] interesting piece on Futfanatico about how new pay walls will affect your television consumption of sport. This is unusual, as he thinks TV is the [...]

By: Elliott

Elliott — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:53:36 +0000

Red-

I can understand that you see the public/private distinction as a bit clearer than I.

But I, for one, would love to make in ten years what Capone made in one month off his bootlegging gig. And the majority of my posts are inspired by moonshine and/or mint tulips.

By: Red Ranter

Red Ranter — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:56:21 +0000

What I don’t get is how this is similar to prohibition. One was complete banning of a product from being sold to consumers, the other was to make a product paid-for. It’s a decision taken by a private organization on how to price it’s product and not mandated across the board in the market by a regulatory agent — like the government was back in the ’20s.

And it doesn’t make us bloggers / other free publishers ‘illegal bootleggers’ like, say, Al Capone’s cartel was.