How can an industry survive if it allows other companies, like Google News, to use its content without any compensation?
(NYTimes editor) Keller asked him (Google CEO), “When are you going to start paying for our content?” Schmidt stiffened a bit and declared: “We will pay when everyone pays” - everyone with an Internet site, that is. There’s an impossible standard...
Online sales now provide one-third of his (RIAA VP) industry’s income. At best, the music business would be a hollow shell of what it is today...
There’s another solution. The courthouse. The Associated Press announced last week that it would “seek legal and legislative remedies” to stop Web sites from pirating AP content. The nation’s newspapers own the AP. Shouldn’t newspapers stand up for themselves? (Google, by the way, does pay the AP for its stories.)
You might ask: Why does it matter? Several studies have shown that more than three-quarters of the news you see, hear or read anywhere is at least derivative of something that originally appeared in a newspaper. Television news has always been especially dependent on newspapers... The point is, without newspaper journalism, the nation would have little original journalism left... “I wince as they run long excerpts of our material,” he said. “I’ll leave it to the lawyers to decide if that is piracy. But it’s certainly freeloading.”
Chill out man, what are you some greedy capitalist? Dude, its just words, nobody own words. We should be like the indians and share everything. Live and let live Bro.
How much of the SacBee’s content is regurgitated from the Socialist Daily Worker?
By making the site require a paid subscription. You know, just like a regular newspaper.
When you post your content on the open web for everyone to read, guess what? Everyone can read it. Don't like it? Don't post it.
What the Slimes wants is for lots of people to come to their site and a view their ads. They are quite kind by collecting money from advertisers (their customers) while letting you (their product) view their spew for free. That's because producing news content is a business expense. Like electricity in a car factory. They use content to attract ad views.
But when Google uses their technology to view the Slimes spew (which they would produce anyway) they want a payday.
The Slimes doesn't want a solution to this problem. The solution is as old as .htaccess files.
They want a handout.