The Associated Press, a news outlet that permeates our information consumption, badly as I pointed out the other day, has just reach a new low.
AP, or as skippy properly calls them, AssPress, is going after lowly bloggers at the Drudge Retort (not to be confused with the fedora wearing rumor monger who runs Drudge RePort), including commenters for Pete's sake, for copyright violations -- for simply duplicating a headline linking back to the original article and running the minimum of excerpts.
Read more about it here.
This is a cautionary tale to those who would try and become "successful" bloggers. The Old Media won't go away without a fight.
AP, or as skippy properly calls them, AssPress, is going after lowly bloggers at the Drudge Retort (not to be confused with the fedora wearing rumor monger who runs Drudge RePort), including commenters for Pete's sake, for copyright violations -- for simply duplicating a headline linking back to the original article and running the minimum of excerpts.
Read more about it here.
This is a cautionary tale to those who would try and become "successful" bloggers. The Old Media won't go away without a fight.
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