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UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plunges - 6/26/2010 4:06:26 PM

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http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/06/incipient-paywall-costing-newspaper-online-readers.ars

Interesting.

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RE: UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plunges - 6/26/2010 5:20:14 PM

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And then there's Murdoch claiming that news media will get people to pay for online access...

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RE: UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plunges - 6/26/2010 5:23:57 PM

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I find it telling that- people dont register. Maybe some of it is "news" is pretty much talking points of the govt.

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RE: UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plunges - 6/26/2010 5:37:37 PM

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quote:

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And then there's Murdoch claiming that news media will get people to pay for online access...

They will when the vast majority of content providers do start to charge.

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RE: UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plunges - 6/26/2010 7:29:56 PM

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Or not,

for news can be acessed on line for free, which might augment the usual providers to rethink their policy when it is they see their profits via online news falling. I will not monetarily subscribe to a certain brand which is essentially what a newspaper name is, for I enjoy a broad perspective on events, not the bias popular outlets provide to feed their followers.

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RE: UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plunges - 6/26/2010 7:42:26 PM

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yet- most news sites also sell ads.

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RE: UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plunges - 6/27/2010 1:28:39 AM

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yet- most news sites also sell ads.

Yup, and I am an advertiser's nightmare, for I seem to have this uncanny ability to ignore ads when they appear. Sometimes I may wonder and comment on the artistry of an advertisement, but as to it's purpose to influence me, nope that does not work, never has.

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RE: UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plunges - 6/27/2010 1:49:36 AM

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Does anyone see this as a good thing, like I do ?

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