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Open Standards For Digital Rights Management Enhances Paid Content Model
White Papers For example, a user can download a MIDI ring tone or game to his mobile for a day or a week, and be given the option to buy refreshed rights after his original rights have expired. DRM will prevent illegal distribution of media objects and provide...
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
Real Takes Charge In Subscription Software
News In its ongoing effort to become the torchbearer for paid online programming, RealNetworks on Tuesday unveiled software that allows content producers to charge fees for their online media. A mélange of content providers have signed up for the...
[April 10, 2002, 7:31]
RealNetworks Launches Subscription Music Service
News RealNetworks launched its much-anticipated subscription service for online music Tuesday, offering a major test of consumer demand for paid content on the Web. The service, known as RealOne Music, comes amid a flurry of similar announcements -- and...
[December 4, 2001, 16:00]
Factiva CEO: Surfers Will Pay For News
News Consumers will be coughing up for all online media content by 2004, according to Factiva chief executive Clare Hart, who sees a two-year turnaround for ISPs to get with the paid-for-content programme.
[July 31, 2002, 6:27]
Looking For Love Online Drains Wallets
News US consumer spending for paid Internet content jumped during the first half of 2003, due partly to more people looking for a mate online, according to a new study. OPA said the top three paid content categories -- personals and dating, business and...
[September 24, 2003, 16:30]
Paid Content Comes To Kazaa
News In its first incarnation, Altnet will simply seed the results of Kazaa's 120 million daily searches, with links to paid content, drawing from the increasingly common pay-for-placement model of Web search companies such as Overture.
[May 20, 2002, 8:54]
Pearson Denies FT.com To End Free Access
News Media group Pearson, denied Monday it is planning to charge FT.com users for accessing content. The Sunday Times story misses the difference between a pure subscription model, and a mode of free content and premium paid services," a Pearson...
[February 6, 2001, 14:58]
Kazaa Finds Friends In File-swapping Fight
News Powerful computer and telecommunications companies are allying with upstart file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net.
[May 16, 2002, 13:12]
Paid Online Content Gaining Ground
News Consumers are slowly opening their pocketbooks for paid content," Jupiter Research director David Card said in a statement. That study also said that online dating was the clear leader in the paid content market, but that consumers were also...
[March 25, 2003, 10:49]
Google Sees Profit Almost Treble
News Excluding traffic acquisition costs, or commission paid to content partners, revenue was $2.23bn. As for YouTube, Google suspects content creators will take advantage of the direct link to fans that the video-sharing site provides, said Schmidt.
[February 1, 2007, 8:26]
Days Of The Free Internet May Be Numbered
News Ovum suggests companies offer a mixture of free and paid-for content to begin with, to "instil a sense of value"--telling customers that content is worth paying for, and dividing content into basic, free services, and premium ones which cost money.
[August 20, 2001, 16:01]
Pre-paid 'credit' Card For The Web
News It plans eventually to capitalise on gaming industry plans to charge for online content. The pre-paid card will also allow consumers to pay for internet access with World Online or any other service provider that signs up.
[September 4, 2000, 14:50]
NYTimes.com Offers 'premium' Clips
News TimesTalks Online is the Web site's first paid programming for streaming media. To help publishers offset the high costs of delivering video online, RealNetworks recently introduced software called RBN Managed Subscription Service, allowing content...
[April 24, 2002, 15:36]
Major League Baseball Takes Swing At Sling Media
News We're talking about content that's been paid for. The bottom line," he said, "is I'd hate to be a lawyer arguing that I want consumers to pay twice for content. Major League Baseball wants Sling Media to stop slinging around the league's content.
[June 7, 2006, 11:10]
Yahoo!'s New Video Not Free For Long
News said on Monday that it has added more free video programming to its site, but the Web portal said it would start charging consumers for some streamed content by the end of the year. Companies "haven't been able to convince people that virtually any...
[October 30, 2001, 11:21]
RealNetworks Unveils Latest Mac Beta
News However, competition for paid content will only get tougher as America Online, Yahoo! RealOne SuperPass has been a pioneering product that has tested Internet consumers' appetite to pay for multimedia content.
[October 9, 2002, 12:15]
Subscription For Content Is New Net Trend
News Variety.com, Salon.com and Britannica.com are just a few publishers that have recently introduced plans to begin charging for access to content that had been previously available for free. According to some online publishers making the switch from...
[March 30, 2001, 13:48]
Altnet To Pay Kazaa Users For File-swapping
News Giving people an incentive to host and trade paid files could create a powerful medium for distributing authorised content and could diminish file-trading networks' role as hubs of online piracy, he said.
[June 2, 2003, 7:36]
Yahoo Profit Down On Slowed Display-ad Growth
News Yahoo revenue rose 11 percent to $1.24bn from $1.12bn a year ago, excluding traffic acquisition costs, which are commissions paid to content partners, the company reported. At the time of the announcement, Decker said that, while the company's...
[July 18, 2007, 7:40]
Lycos Sports 'for Sale' Sign
News An acquisition of Lycos, one of the last available premier Internet search and content properties, represents an outstanding and unique value creation opportunity at a time when advertising budgets are increasing, paid online content is gaining...
[April 28, 2004, 9:00]
