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Netroots Boycott of Associated Press is Working
culturekitchen.com — I was unaware of AP's threats against blogs linking to their stories. It seems they picked the wrong party to pick on - bloggers in general understand fair use policy. I cannot understand if we are linking to their stories - that is driving traffic to their subscribers - where is their complaint?
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- neognostic, on 06/16/2008, -0/+7Old school MSM does not understand the new frontier.
- thirdcoastborn, on 06/16/2008, -0/+6***** it, let's boycott them hoes
- alapoet, on 06/16/2008, -0/+7This is further proof of AP's abysmal cluelessness about new media.
Threatening their most loyal and prolific user base -- yeah, great move, AP. - liza, on 06/16/2008, -0/+4they're supposedly reviewing their policy but they won't drop the C&D's against Rogers and The Drudge Retort.
So I say ***** 'em --and Diggers should stop linking to these idiots and driving traffic to them. Starve them. Make them see their stats dip to oblivion.
***** the AP! - philodygmn, on 06/16/2008, -0/+3Bad blood. They really ***** up. Can't ever live this one down. Just completely brain-dead.
- PaulLev, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2It's indeed a classic confrontation of old media and new media - more particularly, AP lawyers who have no understanding of the evolution of media. I bookmarked this page, and will be sure to include a mention of this in my new book, New New Media, to be published by Allyn & Bacon in 2009.
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