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Making Content More Valuable or Stealing Revenue?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-kids-get-offa-my-lawn dept.

TechDirt has an interesting look at the short history of complaints over meta content delivery and traffic generation. Looking at everything from complaints over Google's Print program to RSS companies delivering ads on someone else's content the article begs the question, where should the line be drawn? One of the examples, Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc., even chimed in as one of the first few comments.

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  1. Re:where should the line be drawn? by ajs318 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then download and build xPDF (or kPDF or gPDF). There's a patch you can apply which disables the disabling of copying and pasting.

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  2. I'm begging you to stop using "begs the question" by KutuluWare · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the love of god, STOP ABUSING THIS TERM. I don't think I've once seen it used properly in my 4 years of reading /., and I doubt I missed much before that. Begging the question is a logical fallacy that invalidates the subsequent argument. This article raises a perfectly legitimate question that follows naturally from the preceding information.

    Or, to put in in more /.-friendly terms: "Begs the question. You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means."