If newspapers make money literally by writing this content and asking people to pay for it, how is this website not just stealing their content wholesale?

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cobbzilla 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Operating a malware portal is not a good way to advertise, or run a media business, and we’ve no obligation to support that.

If your physical copy of the Sunday Paper got up and walked around your house, rifled through your personal effects, then made a bunch of secret phone calls to shady numbers, would you say “Well, they gotta run a media business, it’s wrong of me not to let them make money this way, after all I agreed when I subscribed”

It’s basic caveat emptor stuff.

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jen729w 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Welcome to the Internet! You have so much to explore. Start here and just follow the links that interest you.

https://yahoo.com

;-)

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sergiotapia 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don't be glib, it's a legitimate question. If this entire business only exists because they sell content written by their journalists, how is this website not just stealing access?

I own the paper, I paid a journo to research and infiltrate a group of people, he wrote a great article, I want to charge $1 to anyone who cares, now this website comes along and says nah here's the content for free hosted on my site.

How does that work?

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jen729w 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Believe me, I know. I used to make my living selling a book. Guess how long that lasted.

So the answer to your question is one of these, depending on your personal viewpoint.

1. Obviously it's blatant theft.

2. "Information should be free."

(My glibness stems from the fact that this has surely been litigated to death by now.)

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oofbey 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Information should be free.

Healthcare should be free.

Food and shelter should be free.

“Should” is doing a lot of work there. Meanwhile in reality, creating and organizing information requires scarce labor which deserves compensation.

	▲	dolorian 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Information is free. It costs approximately nothing to duplicate it and its value is approximately nothing. You may think the publication "should" be paid every time someone reads their slop, but in reality that's not how it works. The bulk of the value these publications provide is in pumping out ads or propaganda. Advertisers will pay more to advertise to people who pay money to whoever asks, so the newspapers ask you to pay. Healthcare is not free to provide, but it is cheaper and more effective with the free flow of information. Same for agriculture and the production of housing.

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ForOldHack 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yahoo.com's advertisers are a great source of drive bys, so much so, I scrape it for places to block.

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djfobbz 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How can you prove that AI didn't write it or that it isn't pre-scripted, government-backed propaganda? I don't know about you, but I wouldn't pay a dime for that.