Durova wrote:
Mr. Murdoch wants to shift to a paid access model for online the online versions of his news holdings. He's negotiating a deal with Microsoft's search engine toward that purpose.
It's hard to understand the conjecture that Wikipedia ties in with those plans. If anything, Wikipedia's habit of referencing historic news articles would help Mr. Murdoch's bottom line because it sends traffic to old articles, which can generate advertising revenue from old news that would otherwise be valueless.
Well, that's a sophisticated view of how rivalry is seen in the media world. If the big picture is the Web eating the lunch of the newspaper industry, because the papers have been undercutting each other for the last decade by giving free content away, then the business solution is to get out of free online access, but also to ask who has had the benefit besides online readers, and do something about it.
Charles