Reuters to go After Infringers
P2pnet.net News,
Apr 07, 2004
On the heels of a story circulating around the online journalism lists about Reuters withdrawing its online content from such syndication sites as Yahoo!, in order to create a subscription based single-site resource, comes this item suggesting that the news syndication agency will follow the RIAA and MPAA's leads and start tracking down people who trade news files illicitly. In a much more competitive environment, it's hard to see how Reuters could be even as successful as industries that enjoy virtual monopolies. My comment, offered to the Online News discussion list, was Reuters will soon learn that "out of sight (and out of blogs) means out of mind." While Reuters may enjoy a subscription based among the financial investment and commercial community, it will not gain widespread subscriptions among the general readership. But while agencies such as Reuters (and similar pubs, such as the Wall Street Journal) cater to a paying audience, their voice - and political point of view - may be filled by other agencies and (hence) other points of view. Via digital copyright digest.
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