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This reads like a bad joke!... To summarise, their proposal to "save the news industry" is to:

- make it illegal for search engines to index sites without asking for explicit permission from each and every site

- make it illegal for people to report on "hot news" that has been broken by one specific outlet first without paying that first outlet

- remove monopoly caps on news organisations, allowing them to become even bigger than news corp (as if that wasn't big enough already)

- give some tax breaks to the news industry and pay people to post ads in newspapers instead of craigslist

...

What world do the authors of this article live in? I sure hope it's not mine.



The authors of that article live in a world where companies like the RIAA who sue their customers are considered heroes.




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