Guardian News article about media mogul Rupert Murdoch's plans to charge for news website access
In what can only be seen as an 'interesting' move, Rupert Murdoch has announced that you will have to pay to access The Sun, The Times and News Of The World websites as of next year.
Currently all of these websites offer free access to stories that are in their newspaper equivalents that day, but this is all set to change according to Murdoch.
Murdoch's words seem to be spurred on by a $3.4bn (£2bn) net loss for News Corporation for the financial year to June. This is something that has been put down to restructuring, writedowns and a slump in commercial revenue.
It is unlikely that people would be prepared to pay for news which can readily be accessed on other news channel sites however could this lead the precedent for future pay per view news access bu other news organisations?
Full article can be read here
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If he starts charging for content, i suspect he'll never be out of the courts trying to injunct those who post the stuff for free
ReplyDeleteI have to say I agree with you there
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