The title of this post is a quote from Kevin Kelly.  I was reminded of it when I read this brief entry in Boing Boing, titled, “Winds howl over the deserted moonscape behind Rupert Murdoch’s UK Newspaper Paywalls”

Newser’s Michael Wolff has a report from behind Rupert Murdoch’s notorious UK paywalls which went up this month around The Times and Sunday Time’s sites, which are apparently ghost-towns, unpeopled even by the print subscribers who get free access but can’t be arsed to log in (and never follow links to Times stories, since chances are anyone in a position to make such a link doesn’t have an account for the site).

Does the idea of charging for a perishable good (news) that exists in overwhelming abundance, can be copied and redistributed at zero cost and only has value for one-time use make sense to any economist on planet earth?

via Winds howl over the deserted moonscape behind Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper paywalls – Boing Boing.

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