These features of MP3 files as an example of digital content are one of the main reasons for the huge revenue collapses in the music and media industry since the existence of the Internet.
[10] There is some evidence of opportunity for revenue already – custom publishing is one area proven to be thriving in the online media world.
In this model publishers agree to go behind a paywall simultaneously and then start to charge the customer for access to all newspapers and all articles.
[12] The increased accessibility and interactivity of online journalism has also created new opportunity in the guise of crowdsourcing, enabling people to get investigative journalists working on stories that they themselves have suggested and funded.
[14] Other publications have turned to providers to implement a solution for them, such as Weekly World News, which announced in January 2013 that they would be utilizing a pay model.
The author (Radomir Adamek) of this principle assumed that this model will become usual for most applications working with paid content.