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Originally Posted by Digbert
Does anyone here subscribe to PC Pro.
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The article conludes with "If you want free content, you need advertising - get over it".
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I have been providing free content since I started writing web sites. Yes, the content promotes commercial products. But, each of those products has been chosen and tested by me.
Free content IS the advertising expense to promote the product. Free content does not need to be spammed by additional advertising in order to survive. Free content does not need DPI to survive.
It is because the free content I provide is the advertising for products that I complain so much about someone else using that content, which I have paid for, to promote their product at no cost to themselves - it is industrial theft.
The web is just one big advertisement - no one is complaining about the advertising.
Simple economics says that if the advertising costs more than the revenue, then you stop advertising. You don't start to use someone else's advert for your product.