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.'"

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He's saying that Google is stealing from him. If there's a 16 byte method to stop this, and he's not doing it, this suggests he doesn't actually believe what he is saying, so he's a bald-faced liar.

My suggestion to people and organisations who don't want to be linked to or indexed is to a) use the technical tools available to guide said activities and if that's not enough, b) get off the fucking internet .

No doubt if google dropped EVERYTHING of his into their black hole (thereby "stop stealing"), he'd sue them for that!

Bookmark that speech, it'll come useful in the future.