A bunch of stupid bullies who don’t understand the concepts of “fair use” and “internet” (or more likely, understand them very well but don’t like them), think they have enough clout to dictate terms. Well, the millions and millions and billions of Wetmachine readers will have to find their own way to AP stories from now on. I’m not going to link to them. Take that, you wankers!
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Load More...Forget my poll, I'm going to bed. But here's one parting tidbit: if you have a good mind-muscle connection you can flex a muscle until it clenches & the pain is overwhelming. This is a good gauge. I have such connection with biceps, calves & several back muscles. Working on more.
OK 5 more minutes. Looks like it's coming down to Christology vs. Agagmator.
OK, enough Trump for fuck's sake. I'm going to blow this pop stand. I just need to decide what kind of youtube video to watch for the soporific effect before crashing. Can I get 20 votes in 10 minutes?
How I wish the "civil" "appropriately polite" moderators would rub forcefully make these facts known. And not grant that monster Trump one fucking milimeter, much less an inch.
In Brownsville, Texas children who were separated were kept in an old Wal-Mart without their parents.
No windows, no sunlight.My friend, the late Tom Hale, rejected 4F from U.S. military service 1939, sailed to England & enlisted there. Ambulance driver Africa, Sicily, Italy, Germany. Present at liberation of Bergen Belsen. His testimony:
2Very clean facility, Bergen Belsen
As Open Source Journalism continues to grow, the shoe will be on the other foot in about 10 years. Then when AP wants to source a story from some video blog they will get sued. Which by the way Michael Yon did that very thing against Reuters.
As I understand things, AP was people who quoted a few sentences and then linked to the AP site.
I’ve seen a bunch of people who have been extremely liberal in their interpretation of “fair use” with respect to some Wetmachine articles from time to time. It would be more annoying if a giant concern like AP did it. But if AP wants to quote a few sentences from a Wetmachine article and include a link to the original, that’s fine by me. That’s the whole idea of the web, for Pete’s sake.
I don’t think we should boycott: I think every blogger should link to as many AP stories as possible! Maybe write a little script to generate the links automatically. Put up an RSS aggregation. Quote like hell.
Make them pay a fortune for unproductive legal action. And after bloggers jointly raise their AP’s Page Rank in Google, how are they going to claim damages?
Yes, I agree that it is a much better form of social protest to link like crazy than to boycott links. Stick it to them!