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Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches
In another move sure to continue the certain doom looming over classic publications, Rupert Murdoch has elaborated on the direction he would take in an effort to monetize the content that his websites deliver by attempting to block much of Google's ability to scan and index his news sites. "Murdoch believes that search engines cannot legally use headlines and paragraphs of news stories as search results. 'There's a doctrine called "fair use," which we believe to be challenged in the courts and would bar it altogether,' Mr Murdoch told the TV channel. 'But we'll take that slowly.'"
It's almost like he doesn't know what he's talking about, isn't it.
It would be even more effective to block known IP blocks of his businesses from any inbound or outbound access to Google services for a month.
He's asking Google to pay him to index his site.
Parse it out...
1) They're stealing his headlines
2) Google may or may not have the right to search
3) We'll attack their right to search
4) So if they know what's good for them, pay us to be included in google searches
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Apparently you're unfamiliar with Mr. Murdoch's favored style of "journalism". You simply state what you think *should* be true, and then cite it repeatedly as "some say X", possibly with a side of tits. USians are most familiar with this from Faux News, but it's apparently practiced throughout the media empire.
Really? She used to be a guy? Oh. Sorry, I misread where that dash went.
The CB App. What's your 20?
Google aren't deciding. The senile old cunt with the chameleon nationality is just getting what he asked for.
And I'll tell you another thing, his son is twice the asshole he is - minimum.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
.....as he gets older that Rupert looks *and* acts more and more like Mr Burns. This comment will probably get me on a NewsCorp hitllist.
In other news:
Rupert Murdoch has purchased a sig sauer 9mm handgun for personal protection.
"If I ever get attacked, all I have to do is hold this end to my forehead and pull the trigger!" exclaimed an exited Rupert. "That'll show them!"
In an exclusive interview with one of his employees, Rupert Murdoch announced that it was time to draw a line in the sand in his constant battle to frustrate freeloading consumers by scheduling extensive rhinoplasty.
As the logical extension of his intent to improve monetization of his global media empire, an aggressive research team, led by his own grubby, questing index finger (itself a semi-autonomous publicly traded subsidiary of ArmCorp) had discovered a hitherto unprofitable branch of Mr Murdoch's own face and immediately set to analysing the potential in the "streaming content" market.
"Thanks to the pervasive and anarchic medium of light and an endemic, unscrupulous approach to photon-consumption," said Mr Murdoch to a camera he owned, "the public have been stealing — we believe it is theft — visible spectra which carry a representation of my nose. When I consent to an interview, a TV appearance or a personal meeting with an individual, we are entering into a contract in which I am licensing access to me, Rupert Murdoch, a highly lucrative and profitable range of properties and services.
"For too long, people have been content to pay only for access to my thoughts, speech or round-the-clock footage of the contents of my bowels — via the Times, Sky and Fox News respectively — while stealing valuable images of my nose, its nostrils and their contents, then rebroadcasting and shamelessly profiteering.
"When a reporter negotiates an interview with me, as well as broadcasting the material he has licensed legitimately, he frequently steals additional content without permission. Telling another reporter down the pub 'I just interviewed that arsehole Murdoch, what a leathery-faced, jowly, big-nosed, offensive wanker he is' is time-shifting and re-disseminating unlicensed intellectual property. Commentary based upon my opinions is legitimate as paid output from the premium outlet of my mouth. Any entertainment derived from the rest of my face is theft, pure and simple. There is no such thing as fair use."
The interview itself took place on Sky Channel 149, a pioneering venture to broadcast 24-hour footage of the view from Mr Murdoch's bathroom cabinet. In line with Mr Murdoch's policy of preferring fewer paying customers and no freeloaders, Sky 149 has precisely one subcriber, with Mr Murdoch himself paying himself hundreds of thousands of dollars each month for access, for the purpose of shaving.
Having successfully franchised out his forehead, jowls and cheeks to a conglomerate representing elephants born without ball-bags, and following a failed attempt to charge a subscription fee to customers prepared to pay to punch Murdoch square in the nose, the decision was eventually made to excise the entire section of the business, rather than allow further illicit exploitation, piracy and copyright terrorism.
When questioned as to what purpose the resulting gap in his cranial portfolio might be turned, Murdoch suggested that he was tentatively considering offers from the adult entertainment market to employ his skull cavity as a giant fucking cunt.
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> He just wants a cut of Google's pie.
So do I. I, however, know that I won't get it by threatening to hold my breath until I turn blue.
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> He's got the time.
No, I don't think he does.
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Rupert has pubs? I guess they won't be free as in beer!
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
If it was such an easy answer in the first place that it could occur just in the description of the link, of course!
This is like the cheap way local news stations get you to watch the whole 11pm news.
7pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out tonight at 11!
8pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out tonight at 11!
9pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out tonight at 11!
10pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out tonight at 11!
11pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out on this show!
11:08pm: And coming up soon, There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. But first weather.
11:30pm: Coming up after the break, 8pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Stick around.
11:59pm: And, if you eat spoiled food at the same time your murdered, you might die!
Roll Credits
You better believe if i can find the information before news outlets decided when I am allowed by all means I will.
Even on a page of search results, the answer to a question found in a link preview STILL is more readable that some of the junk clogged websites many news organizations have.
I guess this is what is was like watching the last few mastodons lumbering off a cliff, confident there was food at the bottom.
"Hello, Rupert? Sergey here. I just wanted to let you know that we've decided to stop listing all of your web sites in our search results. Yeah, it turns out it was pretty easy to do. Say, can you do me a favor Rupert? Can you get back to me next month and let me know how your advertisers feel about this? No, no... nothing important. I just have a bet with Larry about that. You have a good one, okay Rupert. Talk to ya later." [click]
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Unfortunately for Fox News, that would mean that they could not quote anyone or use excerpts from books or speeches without prior approval.
Yeah, that would be a serious hindrance if Fox News were in the business of reporting facts.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
It's time for the hackers/crackers of the world to unite and give Murdoch what he wants: A robots.txt that stops googlebot from indexing anything on News Corps servers.
There are several advantages to this:
1) Murdoch gets what he says he wants, free of charge
2) Google gets to show the world, just how effective they are at driving traffic
3) We, the people, get to pull a Nelson on Murdoch
4) The crackers/hackers who pull it off, get to show that they're doing good work
even internally if a reporter wants something old he usually has to go to the archive (read basement) and digg for hours.
Someone's been spending too much time online.
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which is totally what she said
Indeed. Information hates being anthropomorphized.