Comments on: Online content isn’t free http://www.kingkaufman.com/2009/05/09/online-content-isnt-free/ This site in beta. Unless you like it Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:13:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael David Smith http://www.kingkaufman.com/2009/05/09/online-content-isnt-free/#comment-45 Michael David Smith Sat, 09 May 2009 20:20:28 +0000 http://www.kingkaufman.com/?p=138#comment-45 How do you feel about net neutrality? Do you think a system where the newspapers are charging the ISPs could work with neutral broadband networks? I also know nothing about the ISP business, but I've thought about this before. Back when people were getting online through Prodigy, should the New York Times have made some kind of deal where you could only read the New York Times online if you were connecting through Prodigy? And could something like this work in 2009? Could my employer, AOL, make my writing available only to people who used AOL to log onto the Internet? Or could a blogger who, unlike me, is actually popular enough to get some readers to change their ISPs (I dunno, Perez Hilton?) sign an exclusive deal with Verizon so that the only way to read his site was if you were getting online through Verizon? I'm not sure how the technology would work and I'm not sure if it's legal, but it's an interesting idea. How do you feel about net neutrality? Do you think a system where the newspapers are charging the ISPs could work with neutral broadband networks?

I also know nothing about the ISP business, but I’ve thought about this before. Back when people were getting online through Prodigy, should the New York Times have made some kind of deal where you could only read the New York Times online if you were connecting through Prodigy?

And could something like this work in 2009? Could my employer, AOL, make my writing available only to people who used AOL to log onto the Internet? Or could a blogger who, unlike me, is actually popular enough to get some readers to change their ISPs (I dunno, Perez Hilton?) sign an exclusive deal with Verizon so that the only way to read his site was if you were getting online through Verizon?

I’m not sure how the technology would work and I’m not sure if it’s legal, but it’s an interesting idea.

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