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Judge Thinks Linking To Copyrighted Material Should Be Illegal
An article at TechCrunch discusses a blog post from Richard Posner, a US Court of Appeals judge, about the struggling newspaper industry. Posner explains why he thinks the newspapers will continue to struggle, and then comes to a rather unusual conclusion: "Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion."
It would, if the anyone clicked on the articles to read them. IF anyone clicked on the articles to read them.
New at this, aren't we?
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.
And since half the articles are dupes, Slashdot is infringing on itself and must self-destruct!
I wanted to write that paper about the current affairs of the political system but I can't give you any sources since it's illegal to link to copyrited material...the new my dog ate my homework.
Hey, have you been sleeping under some rock? We don't RTFAs in this part of the internet. The editors only have to insert a few phony "links" in the story to www.foo.bar
"Slashdot effect" would have to be reinterpreted as "a bunch of people arguing about something without bothering to know the story" though, but around here we take pride in doing that.
Now I will have to ask you to get off my fucking lawn.
Old man yells at cloud.
If no one clicks a link, is it still a link?
Hypertext links are just the beginning. We must close the analog hole! Every time someone chats with a friend about the day's news, a poor, helpless newspaper loses money. And God kills a kitten.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Why do you think China is kicking our asses so hard?
*Sigh*. China is not "kicking our asses". China is cooperating extensively with us by making lots of things for us more efficiently than we can, and both buying lots of things from us that we can make (or do) more efficiently than they can, and investing in our economy.
It's not a competition, and it's much closer to a $1,000,000,000,000-sum game than to a zero-sum game. Go read Paul Krugman.
bipartisanship, n.: when both parties gang up on you
Imagine someone cloned slashdot. Someone who can do CSS properly.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."