James Murdoch, son of media mogul and News Corp head Rupert Murdoch, has reiterated the media company’s tough stance on Google, repeating the threat made by his father to withdraw the company’s content from the search giant.
Murdoch told Abu Dhabi’s inaugural media conference that Google and Yahoo! continued to “sell bits of copyright material and make money off it”.
The young CEO of News Corp in Europe and Asia, told the conference: “You may have to withdraw access to those things. You may not,” as reported by The Times.
Last November Rupert Murdoch threatened that content from News Corp’s newspapers, which include The Times and The Sun, could be removed from Google’s search index as a result of pay walls.
Google maintains that Google News sends news organisations “about 100,000 clicks every minute”.
Murdoch also attacked internet pirates, calling it “lunacy” to claim illegal downloads were different from “going into a store and stealing a pack of Pringles”.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Miller, head of digital media at News Corp, said earlier this week that "dual revenue streams" are likely to co-exist as media organisations continue to trial ways of making monetizing content online.
Miller claimed the media industry had to return to charging whether through subscription or some other method.
His comments come as Rupert Murdoch called up the Gulf states to open up their markets to global competition by cutting regulation and ending censorship.
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