Controlling digital content is what is difficult. The music and movie industries have tried the same thing and have had hard times adjusting. Look at other digital content distributors and their models. Most are built on quality and trust. Give a quality product for a fair price and most users will obey copywright restrictions.
Probably a membership system. Any content you wanted to protect would only be accessible by members, or pay per product. This would allow you to track who downloaded what, and give restrictions on how many places they could use it.
You could also have a free area, which would allow potential customers to sample content and create traffic, tease paid products. Something for everybody.
Some of the sites (free) that I've seen allow you to download the article, and have an option to have it emailed. I like the email option.
Here's an example. I think these are valuable in todays blog, twitter and content generating machines that active sites need to be these days.
http://www.aracontent.com/PrintSite/Default.aspx |
