Ronald Grover, Los Angeles Bureau Manager for BusinessWeek

Can Barry Diller Make Content Pay?

August 4, 2009 at 12:04 am PT

It was a week after the annual Allen & Co. mediafest, and Barry Diller, the fabled former Hollywood mogul and chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), was eager to chat. Just back from his trek to Sun Valley, Idaho, to join Herb Allen’s annual convocation of moguls, Diller was talking about content and how, despite all the hoopla over the mass of online video that folks are watching, the whole notion is hopelessly unprofitable unless the media world can figure out a way to get people to ante up for what they now get for free.

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