Enough with the Free
James Farmer,
incorporated subversion,
May 11, 2009
It feels like, with the economic crunch fully upon us, that the battle between the free internet and the pay internet is reaching a new stage. Traditional content agencies are becoming desperate and declaring "the end of free". Now this has nothing to do - as James Farmer suggests - with whether people are sufficiently grateful for the charity of the service providers. It has, in my view, everything to do with the sort of economic model we, as a global society, want to pursue - one which favours large, entrenched, and powerful corporate media, or small, agile, independent voices. And whether we are willing to pay for what the corporate world provides.
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