Re:The subscription-pocalypse
by pjc50 on Monday January 28, 2019 @07:00AM
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The thing with newspapers is not outbound links but inbound ones. We can see that on this very website; how much of HN is inbound links to news sites? How often do people complain that the inbound links are GDPR-broken or paywalled?
This is where the recent EU copyright directive controversy came from, an attempt to assert copyright in inbound link titles and snippets.
What I think customers would find most convenient is paying the aggregators (HN, twitter, FB etc) who would then pay on towards the content creators. The second-order effects of that system would probably be destructive though: spamming and new forms of clickbait.
The Brave browser is an interesting approach but I'm not going to use it unless I have to, and so I suspect for most people.
This is where the recent EU copyright directive controversy came from, an attempt to assert copyright in inbound link titles and snippets.
What I think customers would find most convenient is paying the aggregators (HN, twitter, FB etc) who would then pay on towards the content creators. The second-order effects of that system would probably be destructive though: spamming and new forms of clickbait.
The Brave browser is an interesting approach but I'm not going to use it unless I have to, and so I suspect for most people.