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Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content
Hugh Pickens writes Weston Kosova writes in Newsweek that Rupert Murdoch gave an impassioned speech to media executives in Beijing decrying that search engines — in particular Google — are stealing from him, because Google links to his stories but doesn't pay News Corp. to do so. 'The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content,' Murdoch says. 'But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid content, it will be the content creators — the people in this hall — who will pay the ultimate price and the content kleptomaniacs who triumph.' But if Murdoch really thinks Google is stealing from him, and if he really wants Google to stop driving all those readers to his Web sites at no charge, he can simply stop Google from linking to their news stories by going to his Web site's robot.txt file and adding 'Disallow.'"
Must be absolutely horrible having all those evil search engines actually index his pages! I guess his robots files aren't working or something.
I bet he thinks the dewey decimal system "steals" content from libraries by classifying and categorizing books.
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Yeah, Murdoch's really stupid... like a Fox.
... and then they built the supercollider.
You have to look at it from his perspective.
Basically his perspective is "Someone else has money. I want it." ...
Not the best perspective by my standards, but he has many times more money than I do, so who am I to say he's a F*#@#ing idiot.
"There you go again".
Not only that, but the one on foxnews.com provides Google sitemaps.
That's too bad. Google's spider really has better things to do than index Fox News ... for example, my great aunt Betty's second cousin's daughter's wedding photos.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
We should celebrate the senile and powerful they make the last foolish stand for each generation before they are laughed to death. It is like macabre performance art.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Nah, he just wants to run things his way and have the search companies pay him. If he blocks Google et al. from indexing his sites, there's no money in that for him. So it's better for him to pretend robots.txt etc. don't exist at all and instead make a case for a very different kind of web - one that allows him to get more money.
Looking at those girls, the first word that comes to mind is not 'expensive'...
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
I love the smell of a price fixing cartel in the morning.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Sad? Sad? Dude, this is Rupert Fucking Murdoch we're talking about. The most evil man alive. Every second his foul influence remains on the earth is a second too long.