Making Content More Valuable or Stealing Revenue?

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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Doesn't anybody EVER learn?

[WML MUNSON]

How many times are we going to improperly use the phrase "begs the question?" Every time it happens, around 25% of whatever thread it was gets taken up by posts discussing its proper use. You think people on Slashdot would take this opportunity to learn something about proper usage.

It shows just how little of the forum discussions people submitting these stories read, either that or they're just doing it as a joke now.

Or, they could just be really fucking dumb.

It's almost as if the people submitting the stories care about nothing except seeing their name on Slashdot's front page every day. They spend so much time trolling for submittable news links on the internet that they can't be bothered to actually read the site itself, because if they DID, they wouldn't make this mistake roughly five hundred times a week.

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[Jack9]

I cant believe another flamebait article from the shitpile, Techdirt, is supposed to be news. There should be a Katz AND Techdirt filter.