Comments on: With Enemies Like This, Who Needs Friends? http://c4ss.org/content/1435 building awareness of the market anarchist alternative Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:08:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Kevin Carson http://c4ss.org/content/1435/comment-page-1#comment-1054 Kevin Carson Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:58:16 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=1435#comment-1054 Thanks. This "teacher" has been caught flat-footed by several such possibilities, including that Murdoch is planning to cut an exclusive deal with some second-tier search engine like Bing. Thanks. This “teacher” has been caught flat-footed by several such possibilities, including that Murdoch is planning to cut an exclusive deal with some second-tier search engine like Bing.

]]> By: ricketson http://c4ss.org/content/1435/comment-page-1#comment-1051 ricketson Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:14:11 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=1435#comment-1051 Maybe Murdoch's complaining and threatening is a bargaining chip -- even if Google and the content providers have a symbiotic relationship, there is still the issue of how to split the proceeds. Maybe Murdoch figures that breaking the relationship will hurt Google more than News Corp...but I think that would only be true if he got all of the other big content providers to boycott Google at the same time. Which brings us to the big picture: he needs to set up a trust that can negotiate prices with google, which means that he needs political support, which is why he's doing all this griping in public. (p.s. I feel like a student who is trying to demonstrate his knowledge by taking the material that his teacher lectured on and applying it to a new situation presented by the teacher!) Maybe Murdoch’s complaining and threatening is a bargaining chip — even if Google and the content providers have a symbiotic relationship, there is still the issue of how to split the proceeds. Maybe Murdoch figures that breaking the relationship will hurt Google more than News Corp…but I think that would only be true if he got all of the other big content providers to boycott Google at the same time. Which brings us to the big picture: he needs to set up a trust that can negotiate prices with google, which means that he needs political support, which is why he’s doing all this griping in public.

(p.s. I feel like a student who is trying to demonstrate his knowledge by taking the material that his teacher lectured on and applying it to a new situation presented by the teacher!)

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