Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs

Well, this was bound to happen sooner or later. After the Associated Press issued its preposterous decision to charge for 5 word quotations of its stories, the blogosphere was quick to react.

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How sweet it is.

J. Gleason

nanc- The irony ; )

Good work, Rcade.

You and DR have those APussies all shook up now.

Am I being ridiculous? Absolutely. But the point is to illustrate that the A.P. is taking an absurd and indefensible position, too. So I've called my lawyers (really) and have asked them to deliver a DMCA takedown demand to the A.P. And I will also be sending them a bill for $12.50 with that letter, which is exactly what the A.P. would have charged me if I published a 22 word quote from one of their articles.

Hey blog-god ...is the Twelve Fitty Thing fer true?

Hopefully, AP figure out at some point that they cannot deny the flow of the written word fer long and that they look utterly ridiculous fighting "the war of the flea".

Be Well.

I want to see the fiscal requirements go back to when if you do not have a sterling credit background you just have to rent. Many were so upset that people of lesser credit could not get 'into a home' that our own government pushed that the financial institutions 'loosen' the credentials needed to purchase a home. Well the government got what they wished for and now we all pay the price. A new/old lesson that if the government gets involved all turns to shit!

AP's a weird organization. They still aren't having executives go on the record about this disagreement, 11 days after it became public. They cover countless thousands of stories where people give a "no comment" and make themselves look worse, and yet they never learned the same lesson.

I love the sweet smell of "gotcha" in the morning. It smells like cooked AP ass!

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