[pray4liberty]

Removing the links would obliterate the majority of the online readership for many newspapers.

Nice going Judge, crash what's left of the MSM newspaper business!

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

That's what I'm thinking. You want to completely kill newspapers, and not a few online news sources? Just prevent others from linking to them. That would mean if you google'd for something, it wouldn't show up. (without express permission) If you read a related article or blog, no links to others on the same topic. No traditional citing of sources.

Far from protecting online sides of newspaper, I think this would completely kill them. If FR, google, or Linux Today doesn't point me to a site/story, I just don't get there.

I wonder if a news agency could give blanket approval to say google to link to their material? That'd keep them in the search engines. Of course, then everyone else would merely link to the google link... Probably the only net effect would be to up google's hit counts and advertising revenue...