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Media magnate Rupert Murdoch said that News Corp.-owned online newspapers may soon pay. The current business model, in which the news services on the World Wide Web free of charge, does not work, it is unable to produce the costs. Accordingly, about the sacrament of the day.

Murdoch’s position to communicate to the British guardian.co web site, and placed under a voting option, the following question: Does the internet pay for a newspapers. Two days in the aggregate data rate of 12.6 Yes, the sex is 87.4 percent.

The article related forums usual “mom” in addition to contributions - for example: None of this money is not man enough? - Was also a strong argument, which appears. The person that refers to money in the broadband internet access and electricity, which the computer is used, that is, indirectly, to pay in order to get content online.

On the other hand, must remain a free online service providers

- who are, for example, television and radio stations, news agencies to obtain híreiket - is a website operated by money, the risk of losing readers.

For example, our country is depending on the free wireless internet.The amazingly rapid foreign expansion in Hungary is at the same time a growing number of places available for wireless Internet services. In hotels, conference halls installed hotspots proliferate in the restaurants, cafes, parks built with the number of systems. The elegant hotel built in return for payment hotspots are available in many places, however, did not use to be paid. The sites that offer free wireless access hotspots to be installed in order to distinguish themselves from the service are competitors, and ultimately to more people, attract visitors.

Specifically, the wireless network technologies, the promotion, distribution had been established in Hungarian Wireless Community, the HuWiCo, which currently operates nine hotspots. The free wireless access points in the association, volunteers planted and maintained, clean and free. Currently, only Budapest locations - restaurants, cafes, bars, parks - located in HuWiCo hotspot, but hopefully in the future will be in rural locations are covered. The association expects to location that want to cause such service to the visitors delight.

It’s not just Google, Yahoo! or MSN who have been subject to concerns by users over privacy in recent months. Controversial new legislation to have Internet Service Providers (ISPs) store details of internet users’ emails, web browsing, instant messaging and internet phone calls comes into force today.
The enhanced legislation follows on from an existing EU directive which is already in effect and currently applies to telecoms providers, although it will now be extended to incorporate ISPs. The original directive came into force in the wake of the 2005 London bombing. Up until now, however, ISPs and telecoms firms have resisted the proposals, while in some EU countries the directive has been subject to challenge.
Under the new legislation, all ISPs in the European Union will be required to retain and store records of all internet traffic, including emails, website browsing, instant messenger and VoIP traffic. However, the data stored does not include content, merely the sender and recipient(s) of such communications. Its purpose will be to determine connections between individuals as part of a crackdown in the ongoing war against terrorism and to “protect public safety and national security”.
Privacy campaigners have voiced concerns about the new legislation as a breach of internet users’ privacy and casting suspicion on innocent users, and have also stated that the introduction of the new legislation is a step towards the implementation of an oft-mooted, but never confirmed government central database which lies at the core of the Home Office’s planned Intercept Modernisation Programme. However, the whole concept of a centralised database has come under fierce condemnation in the wake of recent high-profile loss of data across government agencies and the military, as well as government plans to introduce ID cards for all UK citizens.
Phil Noble, spokesman of privacy group NO2ID, said of the new legislation: “This is the kind of technology that the Stasi would have dreamed of… we are facing a co-ordinated strategy to track everyone’s communications, creating a dossier on every person’s relationships and transactions.
“It is clearly preparatory work for the as-yet un-revealed plans for intercept modernisation.”
As recently as last week, the Independent newspaper reported on a plan by the Government to monitor millions of Britons’ interaction on social networking sites, with data to be stored on a ‘Big Brother’ database - which civil liberties campaigners called a “snoopers’ charter”.
Data stored under the new legislation will be accessible by the Police and the security services, public bodies and local councils but they must first obtain a warrant in accordance with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). ISPs will be compensated for the additional resources and costs required in retaining the data.
An ETNO-compiled report in 2004 found that a large internet service provider would need to store of the equivalent of 40 trillion emails - between 20,000 and 40,000 terabytes of data - if it was required to keep all traffic data for 12 months.

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