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[News] The Rise of Open Media, Death of Copyrighted Content

Over at Groklaw, an interesting point is being made by PJ.

First she links to the following:

http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndRegion/2006/08/16/1758016-sun.html

(Need to pay to read article)

Then, she links to NYT:

http://tinyurl.com/g8964

Article title is "At Forbes.com, Lots of Glitter but Maybe Not So Many
Visitors" and, once again, it need subscription (beyond cookie) merely to be
read.

Then, she links to the following, showing why the music/copyright industry
struggles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8

Watch the numbers.

What about Wikipedia < http://tinyurl.com/px99w >? And the 100+ million
blogs? YouTube/Yahoo Videos/Google Video, among others? The point being: be
freely-available, or be gone. It's the Open-Sourcing of content. Much like
software...

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