The Atlantic: Time for a Royalty System for Aggregators?
“NewsRight has identified the most aggressive “scrapers”—the scores of sites that search the Internet for news in a range of subject areas and characterize themselves as ‘media databases’ or ‘media monitors’ and sell subscriptions to corporations or government agencies without compensating news organizations. The scale of these businesses has apparently reached a size that, over time, could make a difference to the bottom line of the content generators.” Some of these scrape my stuff regularly - I see the stats. They can’t decide on popularity or stickiness themselves, so they look to good old webloggers to do it for them.
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