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News Sites Start Charging Readers to Comment on Articles
News publishers have such a fraught relationship with the people who comment on their articles that many websites have been removing the comments section altogether (including this one). Michael Robertson thinks he has a better idea: start charging the people who hang out there. Robertson, an entrepreneur in San Diego best known for founding MP3.com and fighting a long legal battle with the record industry, argues that the prospect...
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And in the future we'll see this in the news, aggregator websites such as Snapzu are picking up steam as articles are snapped and discussed freely on their site.