Internet Dough-Boy

The New York Times published another painful article today, titled Waiting for the Dough on the Web. Richard Siklos meanders along a path of media profit gleaning in the internet. One paragraph really struck my eye:

The less-cheerful view of the traditional media companies is that all their online efforts will not translate directly into more revenue or fatter profits. Thanks to aggregators, file sharers, pirates and other disruptors, more value will leak away or be stolen than will be gained by these companies.

Siklos portrays the internet as a marketing tool, a big billboard park. Disgusting.