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Originally Posted by BigFire
I would say the upcoming generations will have to pay for most content again, porn, news, entertainment.....most companies especially mainstream don't make enough money from giving away stuff for free, Murdoch made the start with locking sites....
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As I have mentioned in other threads in the past, this is nothing new.
The same everything free, internet utopian dream, existed in the late 90's and ended in early 2000's when the dot com bubble burst. Now here we are 10 years later with the same situation as back then.
It WILL change as it did before, and people WILL PAY as they did before. This is little more than v 2.0 of the same old song. Except there are more people online, and is a lot more shit for free already out there.
Free is not a business model to anyone other than traffic brokers. Unfortunately, few seem to have the business sense to realize this. Teaser trailers, fine. But these 5-20 minutes for free is simply madness. Again, works for the TRAFFIC guys, but not the content or
BROgrams. At least into converting a sale.
I will be glad to see it come to an end, and those who thought this was the wave of the future gone with it. This is a long overdue pruning of the internet, and adult online. Frankly, I am looking forward to 2010 and a continued thinning of the herd.
After that, maybe the BROgrams will learn to raise the bar of entry and go back to invite, or pre-approval only. Putting their promotional content libraries back under lock and key.
