Yeah, and it's a very tough nut to crack. We've been talking about it, you know, in media circles for the longest time as the Internet caught on and as you know, News sites had to give everything away to get Internet traffic, whereas, you know, we all learned how to play 99 cents for music and then buy an album and things. News never caught onto that. And so they'd been giving away the product for free. Newspapers couldn't compete. They've been folding up and going out of business. We know all this. (23:39–23:52)
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Asserts that news sites gave content away for free to attract internet traffic, unlike the music industry.
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