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How would they even enforce it? Most of these motherfuckers are just republishing AP stories anyway.
by DannoHung 17y ago
How would they even enforce it?
Most of these motherfuckers are just republishing AP stories anyway.
- wmf 17y agoReferer blocking.
- ojbyrne 17y agoWhich means people who want to use their favorite aggregator sites would just have to set their browser to not send referers. And the old media sites lose a little bit of analytics.
- wmf 17y agoIf they're going to implement such a crazy thing, they might as well also block requests that have no referer.
- ojbyrne 17y agoWhich inevitably leads to a kazaa/napster like escalation of arms where just about everyone disables referer headers, after which content providers lobby to make that illegal.
- Mcuban 17y agoHow many people do you know that even know they can do this, let alone know how to do it. Let alone would go through the process of it. Let alone would understand the ramifications for other site interactions. non event. You and 17 other people might do this.
- ojbyrne 17y agoPresumably the aggregation sites would have instructions in big red letters at the top of every page.