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Reminds me of the Drudge Report "app" that was simply a mobile version of the site created by Jon Gales, without permission from Jon Gales (or, presumably, Matt
by alanfalcon 16y ago
Reminds me of the Drudge Report "app" that was simply a mobile version of the site created by Jon Gales, without permission from Jon Gales (or, presumably, Matt Drudge).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2329283 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2329283
- jonknee 16y agoFor anyone who missed it, that case ended well enough. I muscled them into giving a $10,000 donation to the Red Cross and after making it they transitioned off my servers. Best of both worlds as I never felt right about making money off it as I was screen scraping Drudge's curated links in the first place. http://www.jongales.com/blog/2011/03/18/hacker-news-comment-red-cross-donation/ http://www.jongales.com/blog/2011/03/18/hacker-news-comment-...
- nikcub 16y agoI found Techcrunch on there a half dozen times, all paid subscriptions. Was only alerted to it when somebody asked 'hey why don't you make your Kindle edition free or cheaper than $5 a month' and I said 'we don't have a kindle edition'.