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...TIME: Is there a market for a used downloaded movie, or other kinds of digital content...
...there’s one thing people in general, and college students in particular, don’t like doing online, it’s paying for stuff. Many, many people pirate software, almost everyone here at Harvard pirates music, and we tend to think of content on the web in much the same way as we think of A-’s: freely available and unquestionably deserved...
...only is it not new to us, subscription-only content isn’t new to the commercial journalism scene: the majority of the articles in the Wall Street Journal (ironically, pretty much everything save the opinion columns, which are available for free at opinionjournal.com) have been behind closed doors for some time, an endeavor which has proven quite profitable for the paper—as of this past spring, in fact, more profitable than the ‘paper’ paper itself...
Some online commentators, particularly those interested in Internet business, have lauded this trend: these “hybrid” models with some paid-for and some free content provide real potential for revenue generation, and do so far more reliably than the iffy model of supporting web sites entirely with banner advertisements or pop-up windows. That a powerful and widely-read newspaper such as the New York Times would try something daring like bet on the willingness of the average ‘net-goer’ to pay for their opinions on politics speaks volumes for progress...
...Arqiva's managing director of mobile media. For the moment, at least in Europe, the mobile operators still have an edge in the turf war, because they know how to put phones in people's hands and how to mass-market mobile services. And they already provide some video content over their existing networks. But once mobile broadcasting goes mainstream, users could well abandon 3G for the real thing. The near future will likely involve some mixture of transmission methods. One possible scenario is that consumers might freely fetch mass-market shows from broadcast airwaves, while purchasing more specialized video...