My Copyright Commentary Material
By KelvinSo the other shoe has dropped and The Times is to be the first of the News International papers to charge for its online content. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when the base of say-havers is limited to those who value their opinion enough to pay for it. The quality might go way up, but depressingly it could equally well go way, way down.
On the bright side, Barnardo Millionaire has discovered some promising evidence that it might just be the former:
As soon as the Times agree to the exciting proposition of paying me for my comments, I will start paying them for an online subscription.
Either the “exciting proposition” of paying works for all online content – their copyright newspaper material and my copyright commentary material – or we will have a tremendously unfair situation where businesses are allowed to exploit copyright but individuals are not.
hubert huzzah
But don’t you see, Hubert? The whole reason News International has to charge for access is to make enough money to pay for your valuable insight! Whereas a free site like us will just infringe your copyright, and call you a chozzler to boot.
41 Responses to “My Copyright Commentary Material”
As with everything else in Right-Wing Nutjob world, this is governed by the free market philosophy of supply and demand. There’s one News International, and millions of self-centred-cuntiosity commenters. His share value will not be high.
How does one chozzle? Is it something I might be interested in? I’m reasonably depraved.
Hubert Huzzah is a syphilitic seal slit.
Nelson, you owe me a tenner for that copyright commentary material.
Nothing to do with this but I liked this comment I read on Farcebook earlier… I mean which someone told me about.
Didn’t Enemies of Reason have the exact opposite idea? As in make the gnomes pay a small fee to comment?
Hubert Huzzah might not like it, but I guarantee he’d be broke within a month of it being introduced.
Elsewhere in that debate:
I’m slightly wary of starting an actual debate here, but this does raise an interesting issue. Of course, few bloggers can actually compete with (good) journalists in providing accurate, timely stories. Chris is simply an arse, and probably a blogger too. However it might transpire that people simply don’t care about accurate, timely news. I can imagine large numbers of readers (the core of which would comprise the HYS crowd) abandoning the main news sites and instead feeding off blogs written by twats with stupid opinions. Twats who, unlike journalists, have no obligation to even try and check their facts.
Unfortunately BBC news will probably always be free, and this brand of commenter is drawn to its officialness like a fly to steaming horse crap.
Oh, and this:
Brilliant.
Hmm, on one side, a journalist, with, one would imagine, a degree and several years experience. On the other, the 21st Century equivalent of the nutter on the bus.
Like the Mail or the Express.
Why does Hubert Huzzah (Great name for a gnome, by the way) use the phrase ‘exciting proposition’ normally in one paragraph, then put it in double quotes for the next? Has he failed to convince himself? Does he not take any of his own spoon-fed bias? Does he stand at the bathroom mirror screaming “Wake up!” for hours on end, then walk away with the feeling that he isn’t listening to himself?
I think the “freee” is some kind of tic, aggravated by the astonishing quantity of bollocks he was spewing onto the internet.
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page22996
A government live chat on immigration you say? I can’t see how that could go wr…
Oh.
It’s almost enough to make you feel the slightest shred of sympathy for Phil Woolas, until you remember it’s the constant government hammering away on how tough they are on immigration that helps feed the tabloid fury.
Yes, if you’re the kind of person who felt the slightest shred of sympathy for smallpox when it was eradicated.
Wow, I’ve learned things from that live chat. Mostly that Phil Woolas writes like a fourteen year old who’s just discovered the exclamation mark key.
That’s got to be my favourite comment in ages. I can just see the advertisers dropping like flies, if the main advertisers on the Times website are pot noodles, Disney and kleenex.
It actually makes me ponder how the HYS mob are going to react to the paywall idea.
There’s no group of non white people that you can easily blame and even an idiot couldn’t fashion a tenous link to Gordon Brown, so there’s going to be a lot of umming and arring as they attempt to look clever.
Ahem. “I cannot afford to subscribe to the Times website because I am drowning under Gordon Brown’s insane tax burden” and “The Times wouldn’t need this extra revenue if Gordon Brown wasn’t so busy gouging businesses in this country.”
I think you’ll find this idiot’s got two.
Most of the HYS eye swivellers still believe that we live in the 1930′s where Moseley is still in with a chance, Hitler isn’t really all that bad, and you can still call a darkie a darkie, why should they care about timely up to the minute news.
Christ, I think I actually just underestimated the stupidity of HYSers.
I need to go lie down for a bit.
Still, as of yet nothing about how our poor journalists need extra funds to make more and more news for the millions of immigrants in the country, so I won’t be grabbing a length of hose pipe and going to the garage just yet.
@Oaf – here’s the Dan & Dan Daily Mail song you’re on about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
It gave me chortles.
Now please stop stalking me on Facecrack.
I’m pretty sure that Kelvin et al are perfectly happy to pay for the high quality commentary we get here on SYB.
All you need to do is leave all your bank details in one of the comments and wait for the cash to come flooding in.
the fucked up thing is, it would make sense for newspapers to keep some trolls on retainer (other than the journalists, that is) to get page views up…
Or perhaps just an Amazon-style recommendations system, e.g. “Awful fuckwits who commented on “Immigration is not out of control, says Brown” also stained the comments section of “Ricky Martin is gay”, with a link that takes you directly to your next online hate crime opportunity
I already have all your bank details, and your spouse’s phone numbers. Hasn’t everyone been getting my somewhat undeniable threatening tone messages? Perhaps my powers are fading. Bollocks.
RICKY MARTIN IS GAY?????
No, he’s just resting.
I’d gladly pay this guy a tenner.
Stuff and nonsense.
The Tories are no more racist or zenophobic than the average Daily Mail reader!
- Dave, Edinburgh, Uk, 31/3/2010 13:53
Unsurprisingly, this got 588 negative comments.
In other words, massively and unrepentantly?
red wine + monitor =
@La Spesh. I will forever stalk you on facecrack, whatever that is, from now on. I don’t recommend googling facecrack by the way.
Yet again I waste my fucking time on you bunch of cunts
Twelve bloody hours and more or less the same number of shit comments
Have any of you fuckers got something even remotely funny to say?
WaymesBrin
I’m slightly wary of starting an actual debate here, but this does raise an interesting issue. Of course, few bloggers can actually compete with (good) journalists in providing accurate, timely stories.
I know a blogger who’s quite big around these parts (fnar, fnar) and whose partner, to boot, is a journalist for a wire service, which helps his profile. However, while other big bloggers in the top ten list are only too happy to stroke their massive egos and tiny cocks by appearing on TV, or giving quotes to the “lamestream media” in order to big up their profile, this one lives by the mantra that “bloggers shouldn’t ever be taken seriously – especially by themselves.”
There we go, blockquote fail. I’m sure you can work it out.
Dear Mr. Armpit.
The People Who Give A Fuck live here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands
Is that not where descendants of a British naval icon fuck each other?
I have two very quick things to say…
Re the Ricky Martin is gay??? comment – you mean you hadn’t figured it out years ago? I underestimate my gaydar sometimes I really do…
On the plus side I’m not going to say one word about the Times issue, because I’d just start getting all serious and arsey, so I won’t
Well, Pete, having just stopped working for a major news conglomorate, and knowing how much money they made year-end and what kind of unadulterated shit they spent it on, I can be fairly sure that I’m right when I say that Murdoch is talking out of his Sharpei-shaped arsehole when he says that they need to do this in order to be able to pay for quality. Especially when the best the Times has to offer is Frank Skinner talking about how great it is to be a minority Christian or something.
It doesn’t need to be serious though. All you really need to do is sprinkle that rant with the occasional allusion to an animal’s genitals, and hey presto, no-one will take you seriously anyway!
@Pete – erm, yeah, I was being ironic. Surely everyone in the world could tell Ricky Martin was as gay as a teapot after 3 seconds of seeing him for the first time.
The wonderful thing about wire access is that it demonstrates just how little actual news-gathering most news outlets do (it’s equally true of radio and the papers, fortunately in this country the TV is mostly immune from it). If you’re actually interested in the content of the news rather than a hyperbolic reaction to it, five minutes on the wires demonstrates just how counterproductive it is to buy a newspaper.
Gay as a teapot?
http://www.teapottery.co.uk/
I want an eccentric teapot – one shaped like a toilet please
You know what Dizzy, you’re right – I don’t know why it gets me worked up. We all know that six months after putting up the paywall no-one will remember the name of that paper that Rupert Murdoch owned – was it The Tomes, The Teams? Something like that – shame you can’t google it anymore…
howdy, great blog post.
What happen to the showbiz world? Who will come out as gay.