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This 5 page paper reviews the 2010 Newsweek article by author Andrew Zolli who considers the question of whether all online information should be free or fee-based. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Wont Be Free" author Andrew Zolli considers the question of whether all online information should be free or should only be accessible if the user pays for the privilege.
Zolli (10), once a major advocate for a free Internet, contends that information is simply too valuable to expect companies to provide it without being compensated. In the past
Zolli (10) had argued that this compensation would come in the form of revenue from advertising or what he now critically terms "some other similarly vaporous concept". Now Zolli
argues that such compensation is simply not forthcoming and the Internet specifically is "pulverizing" companies that are attempting to employ the free business model he previously advocated (10). The
contention of this paper, however, will be that in reality free content is not only a very important part of the Internet but that it is in fact paying off
for some of the biggest Internet companies. The Internet is indeed one of the most powerful tools of contemporary society.
Its power lies not only in its capabilities but in its structure. The Internet is not owned or operated by any one entity but rather by tens of millions of
entities, entities that are located all over the world. As the name would suggest, the Internet is a conglomerate of interconnected networks. The users of that network both
draw from its resources and contribute to those resources. One has to only casually observe the Internet today to confirm that it thrives
quite successfully on primarily free content. More and more companies it seems are moving quite successfully to the free content business model. Consider, as an example, Time Warner and
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