News Corp (NYSE: NWS). chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch gave his views on paidcontent and news aggregators to attendees at The Cable Show in Washington DC: “People are getting used to getting everything on the net for nothing. That’s going to have to change somehow.” One change would the relationship with Google and others: “Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights? Not just Google (NSDQ: GOOG). I think if you’ve got a brand like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) or the Wall Street Journal you don’t have to do that.” He said classifieds are “a gold river draining away that probably will be gone forever.” More detail at paidContent.org...

Robert adds: In the UK, we are expecting future integration of WSJ.com with News International’s Times Online, possibly introducing a premium subscription for business news.

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