Comments on: My media consumption http://www.rossparker.com/2009/11/10/my-media-consumption/ my personal homepage Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:04:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John http://www.rossparker.com/2009/11/10/my-media-consumption/comment-page-1/#comment-442 John Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:10:05 +0000 http://www.rossparker.com/?p=447#comment-442 I won't even get into the music side but much of this is clearly not sustainable. Newspapers give their content away for free online, whilst their paid-for dead-tree circulations and ad revenues fall. We are still in the age of insidious cross-subsidisation in the online world. Yes the costs of distributing online are lower - but reporters, editors, legal teams, developers and hosting are not free. I think some of the web giants have got a lot to answer for here, using their dominance in search to control the flow of other people's intellectual property. It also gives everyone the impression that online everything is and should be free. This fiction needs to be addressed you don't get owt for nowt. The BBC may be funded by a tax - but at least its a business model. I won’t even get into the music side but much of this is clearly not sustainable. Newspapers give their content away for free online, whilst their paid-for dead-tree circulations and ad revenues fall.

We are still in the age of insidious cross-subsidisation in the online world. Yes the costs of distributing online are lower – but reporters, editors, legal teams, developers and hosting are not free.

I think some of the web giants have got a lot to answer for here, using their dominance in search to control the flow of other people’s intellectual property. It also gives everyone the impression that online everything is and should be free. This fiction needs to be addressed you don’t get owt for nowt.

The BBC may be funded by a tax – but at least its a business model.

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