hhhhmmmmm..........

http://www.cnn.com/2005/T....in.myspace.ap/index.html

News Corp. purchased Intermix Media Inc., the owner of MySpace, for $580 million last mont

holy moly....fcukin Tom

wait till CV gets sold someday

You are absolutely crazy if you don't think News Corp. isn't going to eventually charge for MySpace. Just like Salon.com, ESPN.com, and other internet-driven content, you'll eventually have the option to get a feature-stripped, ad-laden version for free, or you'll be able to pay for the "premium" content without ads, and with the features you were getting for free in the first place.

14 million unique visitors a month is nothing to sneeze at. And the number of members that they'd lose because they'd have to start paying would be dwarfed by the number of subscribers they'll pick up because of the additional exposure they don't have now, especially with the Fox brand name behind it.

It's a great pick up for NewsCorp, because they now have access to 22 million subscribers to which they can deliver focused advertising content to. Think of getting friend requests bands, only instead of getting them from bands, you're getting them from one of Fox's new fall lineup shows, or from Bill O'Reilly. Imagine checking your messages, and getting an email from Detective Vic Mackey, urging you to watch "The Shield", only on FX! Or instead of trying to shoot ninjas on your homepage, you can throw darts at Joe Lieberman's head to win an XBox 360 (Actually, that wouldn't be so bad.).

It's great for NewsCorp. I'm not so positive it's great for the MySpace community.

^ so true (hopefully)

100 million iTunes Music Store downloads would disagree with you. So would the Insiders at ESPN.com, and the IGN Videogame Insider Message Boards, both of which are paid boards. It has been shown repeatedly that the average consumer will pay for premium content.

Consider this: MySpace has 22 million members. Say they start charging, say, 5 bucks a month for access. You'll lose probably a third of your members right off the bat-but let's be generous and say they'll lose half of 'em. You'll keep the longtime members, the bands, and everyone who uses it for personal promotion. So now you're down to 11 million members. That's STILL 55 million dollars PER MONTH, and that's before you consider the influx of people who have NEVER heard about MySpace, but saw a commercial on FX and signed up, as well as the advertising dollars that it's going to bring in from delivering focused ad content to the end user.

MySpace has been running under the radar nationally for a long time. It's about to blow up, and Tom is about to make a crapload of money. Maybe I shouldn't have deleted him from my friends list.

i think thats a simplistic view dwight. if they lose half off the bat, they will then lose half every month thereafter as well. soon, the sight would become non-relevent, or another would take its place.

anyone used NAPSTER lately?

good logical points dwight

kirk makes a good point to

Would any of us go on myspace if only a few of our friends were willing to pay? it would be boring, we could just email or talk to them on MSN

Would it then turn into a 'dating' website? there are millions of those out there

I just can't see people paying for it unless it changed and provided some type of 'premium content'

^^ya but i wonder what % of those people know how to get free music?

Plus, *I* know how to steal music, yet I still buy music from the iTunes Music Store.

i think thats a simplistic view dwight. if they lose half off the bat, they will then lose half every month thereafter as well.

Yes, but just as many people would be joining the site as a pay site in my scenario.

so your saying that everyone knows how to get free music but choose not to?

*looks around* Where did I say that? You're using bitch logic now. Get your facts straight.


412,000 people compared to the 10's of millions of people online is absolutely nothing.

Keep in mind this is just the first year. And you are comparing one business. Add up the revenue of all these pay music sites and you have your 10's of millions.


Of course there will be millions of people that won't be willing to pay. But that doens't take away form the fact that there are millions that will.