Friday, August 6, 2010 | Modified: Thursday, August 19, 2010 Controlling the stream: When it comes to protecting content, traditional media gets more aggressive The Business Review (Albany) - by Barbara Pinckney The Business Review
To protect its paid content, The Daily Gazette sent cease-and-desist orders to bloggers lifting stories. That’s the kind of mass distribution the paper doesn’t like, says managing editor Judy Patrick, above.
Not long after The Daily Gazette began charging for its online content last summer, managing editor Judy Patrick noticed two community blogs copying and pasting entire stories to their sites.
The Schenectady-based paper sent the bloggers cease-and-desist orders. But rather than solve the problem, “it started a debate about how we were trying to stifle free speech and we were greedy and just out to make money,” Patrick said.
She tried to ignore the bloggers, but the problem only got worse. So she reported them to the web host, which had stringent copyright protection policies. That, finally, was that.
The Gazette’s story illustrates a struggle taking place all over the country. Media companies looking to increase revenue are trying to leverage their online content, but users who are accustomed to—and feel entitled to—unfettered access to news are resisting and, thanks to technology, finding ways around the barriers.
Subsidized media is just hurt because the moguls have lost their pull to a certain degree.......FREE information is dangerous to powers........there is no more media other than cheap reality shows and opinionators like Beck/Regan/Matthews etc........
the media has a choice to make as to what line they want to be on......free or subsidized.......controling ideas is BIG BIG BUSINESS.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
perhaps if the media returned to REAL journalism and REAL informing, they wouldn't have these concerns. There would be no need for blogs so people get dig up the truth for themselves. That's why I always read http://www.schenectayinformer.com. It's the only place you canget informed with the FACTS!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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