Murdoch's Secret Plan to Charge for Content
Daily Beast, May 6, 2009
By Stryker McGuire
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has set up a global team, based in New York, London and Sydney, to create a system for charging for online content in places where consumers have come to expect it to be free. According to a knowledgeable source, the team is said to be looking at hardware to deliver the content in a "user-friendly way."
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