| Teesus | Date: Saturday, 2013/05/18, 2:44 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Plenty of people rightly mocked the news a few years ago that the Associated Press was working on a
plan to "DRM the news." The idea was to put some sort of licensing
mechanism together to get news aggregators to pay to promote their news.
This seemed incredibly dumb for a whole host of reasons. It added no
value. Its only purpose was to limit the value for everyone in the
system by putting a tollbooth where none needed to exist. When it
finally launched last year to great fanfare in the newspaper world, under the name
"NewsRight," we pointed out that, once again, it made no sense.
Basically, the whole focus appeared to be on getting bloggers and
aggregators to pay for a license they legally did not need.
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