Why no "Banner Ad Eaters"?

Michael Stutz stutz at dsl.org
Fri Jan 23 08:24:44 PST 1998



On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wei Dai wrote:

> I think the long-term outlook for content providers is pretty bleak. How
> do you make a profit when your copyrights are not enforceable and your ads
> are easily filtered?

I think this is actually a very encouraging sign for content providers. The
profit model, however, will have to change -- those models that work for
free software businesses will likely also work for other forms of
information as well.







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