Rupert Murdoch sounded it and a lot of media companies are echoing it – pay for consuming media online.
This means you might actually have to pay to read news or other articles on the web. In Wall Street Journal (owned by Murdoch), you have two types of content – one with pictures, rich information (lot cool) and the FREE stuff (less cool).
Hulu.com is already asking for money, if you want to watch TV shows. Too bad it didn’t start its service outside the US.
This could mean few things –
1. Media firms are sick of letting their hard earned content for free. Slowly, internet will move towards the “Free is Nothing” strategy.
2. Page Views and Unique visits would recieve some serious blow. Ad rates could be affected.
3. Lot of bloggers might spring out only to publish this paid content for free. Sounds like new grounds for ad networks and such.
4. Serious net users may actually start paying to make sure they are not wading in shitty contnet.
Two years down the line, we could as well be looking at our credit card bills for ‘virtual content consumed’ and looking back at today as Good Old Days, when Shit was Free!
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