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> to include the Newspaper Association of America, which said the legislation was needed because online piracy "undermines the investments that newspapers make
by danilocampos 16y ago
> to include the Newspaper Association of America, which said the legislation was needed because online piracy "undermines the investments that newspapers make in journalism."
Can anyone fill us in on how online piracy, specifically, affects newspapers? Enormous torrents of USA Today, perhaps?
My impression is that the internet at large obviates newspapers altogether, so I'm mystified. Grasping at anything to turn back the hands of time on their dinosaur business model?
- wmf 16y agoMaybe they want to blacklist news.google.com; I hear it's nothing but pirated headlines.
- eli 16y agoThere actually are popular torrents of e.g. The Economist. I'm sure there are also websites "liberating" content from behind paywalls as well.
- benologist 16y agoHopefully they mean all the spammy little blogs that exist purely to wrap AdSense around cut & pasted articles.
- Andrew_Quentin 16y agoMaybe they are thinking of charging for their content as London's Time currently does. Although I do not know of any site which provides the content of The Times for free, there is no reason why people would not start doing so where all newspapers to start charging for content. So maybe they are indeed preparing for a certain sort of internet balkanisation.