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> 3. People read the summary on the aggregator and never visit publisher site, let alone subscribe to the publisher. > 4. High quality news will cease to exist
by dane-pgp 6y ago
> 3. People read the summary on the aggregator and never visit publisher site, let alone subscribe to the publisher.
> 4. High quality news will cease to exist because no one pays or even looks at it's ads
If everyone is happy to read just the summary, then why don't news publishers produce only summaries? That would be cheaper for them, and it would also make it unambiguous that Facebook hosting the summary on (or in) their pages would be copyright infringement. I suspect the situation is more complicated than the way you want us to think about it.
- colinmhayes 6y agoMany do produce only summaries. There's little value in it since your content will immediately repurposed by every other site since it's too short to be unique. You can't copyright facts after all. I think everyone can agree that such a race to the bottom isn't sustainable, eventually no one will create the original article since the summarizers just steal it for no cost.