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Originally Posted by TheMooch
CONS:
- Guaranteed not to be free. Freedom of the press does not mean Press output is free.
- DRM issues will be even bigger and noisier than ever before.
- Ads take on a whole new meaning
- Just IMAGINE the licensing nightmare of electroniclly distributing the comic section!
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... not to mention the question of referenceability. It's always possible to go back to a certain issue of N.Y.Times and check what it contained ... but a newspaper published on the web? Who archives it?
One of the UNKNOWNS is that a no-paper Times won't happen until they are prepared to take on legal issues. What do you do with the 'freedom of the press' if there is no press? No, it's not a joke: some rights and freedoms related to publishing are presently connected with *printed* material -- in some countries more than in others.
Also, the duty of most national libraries to collect all national material that appears in print ... will also be in for a period of transition.
Not sure yet if the balance of all this ends up in the black.