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They keep telling us that we need to pay for our content.  Hulu joins the ranks by announcing a subscription model for their service – http://mashable.com/2009/10/22/hulu-subscription-model/.  The big man in media, Rupert Murdoch says, not the first time, it is time for internet search engines to start to pay for any news reports they currently take for free – http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/8298507.stm.

I really don’t think that any service or person is big enough to guide this and I would like to suggest that most of us are just not ready to pay for it.  I mean, if you are like me, with a very wide range of interests from science through to economics and genetics and genealogy, how much of my monthly budget will I need to use to access this content?  

Sorry guys, a new commercial model to support advertising models is required but subscription will not be the way to go.

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