Would You Pay For Every Internet Site You Visited?
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According to some people like Barry Diller, who operates some 30 Internet sites which make $1.5 billion, he thinks we will all be paying to view sites in 5 years. According to this man, the Internet is just “an accident of historical moment that will be corrected”. An accident? Historical moment? Corrected? By who?
According to one news article it states Barry Diller as saying:
“I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid,” Diller said in a keynote discussion opening up the Advertising 2.0 conference held at his company’s futuristic glass building alongside the Hudson River in Manhattan. “Not every single thing, but anything of value. “
What was he going to say to a group of advertisers? The Internet will be a flop and advertising will fail?
What do you think? Will you pay for content on the Internet to make more money for some corporation that says that is the way it is going to be?
Comments welcome.
5 Comments
Buffet
June 17th, 2009
at 6:01am
I DO pay for my internet service - 30.00/mo.! Lessee……we’re supposed to weigh the lunatic opinion of one kook against the rest of the free world? OK. World:right. Kook:wrong.
Ron Schenone
June 17th, 2009
at 6:48am
I believe this will be the case as well.
mhz
June 17th, 2009
at 11:00am
I’m sure he means that MANY sites will become pay sites. Not all of them. Remember when you first bought a modem, and started checking out the BBS sites?
There will always be people who want to run sites for free, and I’m sure they will.
Phillip Metzger
June 17th, 2009
at 12:46pm
I think he means turning the web into a paid system is his personal mission in life.
But he has a point when he says, “Anything of value.”
And web sites of value is far different than, “every site you visited.”
Ron Schenone
June 17th, 2009
at 1:03pm
Thanks for the comments. It is appreciated.