[marcus_holmes]

Because newspapers are failing anyway, and tech companies are thriving anyway. So if this system fails, nothing changed.

If this system works, and suddenly Australian newspapers are viable while newspapers elsewhere are still struggling, then it will prove that forcing tech to pay for content works, and that therefore tech was probably stealing media's revenue.

[asdfasgasdgasdg]

It doesn't seem necessary for tech to be stealing revenue from publishing for this system to function. If I hold a gun to your head and say give me a thousand bucks, and you do, I'll be a thousand bucks richer, whether or not I was stealing your revenue.

[inopinatus]

What it'd prove is that regulatory capture works.