Even as a Dutchman, I'm sometimes amazed how far we take our pseudo-socialistic tendencies :)

Seriously, if we implement this now, nobody will be bothered to ever come up with an innovative new business model for news. A big news corporation with no business model but a fat public life-line is just too hard to compete with...

For Dutch-speaking hackers (NOS Journaal Video):

http://player.nos.nl/index.php/media/play/tcmid/tcm:5-533400...