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“The Wire” writer: TV used to be Free but look at it now
From a short video interview with “The Wire” writer David Simon: “You know, newspapers are gonna say, “We already let the horse out of the barn door. How can you charge for content? Information wants to be free.” All that bullshit. As I remember, there wasn’t an American in America 30 thirty years ago who paid for their television. Television was free 30 years ago. Now everybody’s paying 16 bucks a month, 17 bucks a month, 70 dollars a month.” (from kottke.org)
Me: True, but that’s the price charged by a monopoly, the cable company that was until recently the only way to get more than a dozen broadcast channels in your home. Now TV is free again, thanks to Hulu, YouTube and a host of others.
