Times and Sun readers to pay as loss-making Murdoch declares end to free-for-all

The billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch suffered the indignity of seeing his global empire make a huge financial loss yesterday and promptly pledged to shake up the newspaper industry by introducing charges for access to all his news websites, including the Times, the Sun and the News of the World, by next summer.

* Murdoch declared that the era of a free-for-all in online news was over.

* “Quality journalism is not cheap,” said Murdoch. “The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive distribution channels but it has not made content free. We intend to charge for all our news websites.”

* Murdoch said he had completed a review of the possibility of charging and that he was willing to take the risk of leading the industry towards a pay-per-view model: “I believe that if we’re successful, we’ll be followed fast by other media.”

*He accepted that there could be a need for furious litigation to prevent stories and photographs being copied elsewhere: “We’ll be asserting our copyright at every point.”Among quality newspapers, Murdoch singled out the Daily Telegraph’s run of stories about MPs’ expenses as an example of news for which consumers would be willing to pay, describing it as a “great scoop”: “I’m sure people would be very happy to pay for that.”

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www.gspTV.ro este primul site din Romania care a facut acest pas!

Pentru prima data in Romania, un site video ofera continut de calitate pe baza de abonament platit. Continutul exclusiv sportiv de pe gsptv.ro va putea fi vizionat doar in sistem pay-per-view. Preturile abonamentelor sunt urmatoarele: 2 euro/saptamana, 4 euro/luna si 6 euro/doua luni (+TVA), iar plata se poate face cu cardul.

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