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Inside the AP's Plan To Security-Wrap Its News Content

Posted by timothy on from the one-of-the-greatest-diagrams-ever dept.

suraj.sun writes with an excerpt from this story at Ars Technica that the "Associated Press, reeling from the newspaper apocalypse, has a new plan to 'wrap' and 'protect' its content though a 'digital permissions framework.' The Associated Press last week rolled out its brave new plan to 'apply protective format to news.' The AP's news registry will 'tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use,' and it will provide a 'platform for protect, point, and pay.' That's a lot of 'p'-prefaced jargon, but it boils down to a sort of DRM for news — 'enforcement,' in AP-speak."

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  1. Re:I thought Slashdot was filled with geeks by Eevee · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No, but I do expect someone complaining about the submitter or editor making shit up to actually have read the story--since what was posted on Slashdot was taken directly from the story.

  2. Re:Your services are no longer needed by PeanutButterBreath · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I got skeptical with the anti-government rant and quit when you cited a fictional sci-fi television show for "evidence". Note in my original comment that I mentioned applying my own filter even to professionally gathered news.

    All human communication is vulnerable to bias. As a mature adult, I recognize this and make the appropriate adjustments to my credulity. Professional news is, in a sense, the devil we know. We know it is biased towards the governmental and corporate status quo. That is an easy bias to correct for when reading the news.

    Eyewitnesses about whom we know nothing WRT their agenda or credibility are hardly a more reliable source.