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Colin Dunstan · 09-09-2003, 11:19 AM

You probably all heard about the music industry campaign against online piracy.

In the NYT article Fighting the Idea That All the Internet Is Free, Thomas R. Eisenmann, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School claims "It was never really free...The hope was that advertising would pay for everything. That's not necessarily a flawed model. It has just been a lot harder than most people thought".

What do you think? Will we soon move to a "Premium" Internet, where free content would become a rare commoditiy?

09-09-2003, 11:19 AM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Do you think the Internet should remain free? You probably all heard about the music industry campaign against online piracy. In the NYT article Fighting the Idea That All the Internet Is Free, Thomas R. Eisenmann, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School claims "It was never really free...The hope was that advertising would pay for everything. That's not necessarily a flawed model. It has just been a lot harder than most people thought". What do you think? Will we soon move to a "Premium" Internet, where free content would become a rare commoditiy?