The problem is that NewsBooster runs a service where clients can subscribe to news in certain categories from several newspappers.
Hereby they are packeting the newspappers content into a new product.
So the individual deeplinks "as such" are not the problem, but a collection of deeplinks served to a client on a subscribtion basis is a different product, than the content of the individual links (otherwise Newsbooster would have no point as a service) - and this new product is based on other peoples copyrighted content.
The subscribtion service is what makes Newsbooster different from Google...
I'm not saying that I'm agreeing with the newspappers, but that's the problem, as they see it;-)
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The problem is that NewsBooster runs a service where clients can subscribe to news in certain categories from several newspappers. Hereby they are packeting the newspappers content into a new product. So the individual deeplinks "as such" are not the problem, but a collection of deeplinks served to a client on a subscribtion basis is a different product, than the content of the individual links (otherwise Newsbooster would have no point as a service) - and this new product is based on other peoples copyrighted content. The subscribtion service is what makes Newsbooster different from Google... I'm not saying that I'm agreeing with the newspappers, but that's the problem, as they see it ;-)