“Media Executives Plan Online Service to Charge for Content ” -New York Times
This is such a hoot I had to look 3 times to make absolutely sure I wasn’t reading an Onion article. This really is an article in the New York Times, and yes, these guys really are beaming proud of themselves for inventing a 10 year old technology to “save” the news industry!
Their company, Journalism Online L.L.C., aims to supply publishers with ready-made tools to charge Internet fees, an idea that has gained currency as advertising revenue plummets, but whose prospects of success are doubted by many media analysts.
Oh! This is the sweetest part:
The company, which says it may have a product ready by the fall…
Hey newspaper CEOs! I have a real S Corporation and I can give you this fancy technology in a couple days! 47.5 hours playing golf and 30 minutes to find the code for protecting content I downloaded in 1999 from the Warrior Forum. And I’ll beat whatever outrageous amount they’re going to charge you by 1/2 – guaranteed!
Rocket Science Spoiler Alert
Now, I can’t understand exactly what they’re talking about here, because I’m not 65 years old and don’t have the Ninja skills to handle their advanced punch card technology, but I think this is a whole new system of password protecting content! Oooo and it’s 3rd party – how sheek!
No publishers have signed on as yet as clients, but several major newspaper and magazine publishers have been in active talks with Journalism Online about how such a system should work.
Yes please tell us of this amazing technology, for we have been so oblivious to the internet since the beginning, we’ve never heard of this freakish ability to lock people out of certain parts of websites until they pay!
I swear, these guys couldn’t be more clueless than if they’d just landed from another planet.
Click here to read about some folks who have a painfully profound grasp of the obvious. It’s cute how serious they are about it, lol.
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