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Rupert Murdock has been “banging on” about copyright stuff and wants to introduce some kind of charge for reading his newspapers over the web, indeed one of his US titles already does charge for on-line subscriptions and content access. Also James Murdoch giving the the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival in August complained that organisations like the BBC made it “difficult” for other media organisations by which I think he meant to charge customers money for content. I have written on this before: http://baldysblog.co.uk/2009/08/29/a-murdoch-moan/

I am not opposed to Murdoch or any other publisher or writer getting paid for their efforts, I believe that they should however, the main failing in my opinion lies in these various media organisations not evolving a new business model and in effect, wanting to live in the past which is just not going to happen, clearly either they lack imagination and good management or are just plain stupid.

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