Users will pay for online content

Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch is planing to charge for online news content. The daily Adevărul comments: "For many analysts and media experts in Romania there is no future for charging for online content. But that's not how things stand. In truth this move by the world's biggest publisher is a return to normality. Web content should never have been free at all. This Internet socialism has delivered a severe blow to creativity and is at the root of the music and film piracy that has led to [economic] stagnation in both sectors. The first sin was to publish newspaper content online. Certainly this won readers, but at a high price. ... It will not be easy to overcome these early sins, but the newspapers are up to the task. The need for quality information ... is so enormous in these times that many people will be willing to pay for online content."

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