From Jeff Jarvis' blog buzzmachine:
We are all allowing our journalism – billions of dollars worth of it every year – to leak onto the internet. We are surrendering our hard-earned rights to the search engines, and aggregators, and the out-and-out thieves of the digital age. - Murdoch
Of course, this isn't really what Jarvis was pointing out. Jeff Jarvis has been pointing out the this kind of delusional thinking for... well, as long as I can remember... but this (Murdoch's thinking) thinking, if it were anybody else would be considered completely insane—literally.
To think that you could fight search engines in today's world could possibly get you institutionalized.
I almost feel bad for the man. Perhaps he's worth billions—whatever it is—I'm sure he's not concerned about the money. He's probably concerned about the same thing he was a few years back when his news channel started to wane. He's trying to tighten up his organization—the problem is the 'organization' is in the form of a search engine!!!
Personally, I don't know much about the man. I don't favor his news channel, but you can't deny its success. It certainly has energized a large number of people. Our most treasured right, IMHO, is our freedom of speech. He has exercised this—and done it well, especially when viewed from the media / marketing spectrum.
I have a good friend that I played music with. A very good friend. Also, and amazingly gifted teacher—even before he officially became one. He told me a few months back something that really resonated with me...
His students don't believe that downloading music (without buying it) is stealing
Reserve your judgment as I did—because if you listen to a band called Widespread Panic or the Grateful Dead, they gave away ALL their music. The music industry largely hindered these bands—perhaps you could make the contra argument (I could anyway)—but they played for their fans, who traded tapes and went to shows and ... well... there is tons on the interenet about this...
The fact is... fighting a search engine on copyright, intellectual property and being 'scooped' goes against just about everything ... well... just do some research about copyright laws! And look and see why they were set in the first place... BREAKING NEWS!!! they weren't set up for LAWSUITS!!!
The Huffington Post (Arianna - to be precise) summed it up perfectly:
Aggregation, on the other hand, within the fair use exceptions to copyright law is part of the web's DNA. Period.


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