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Originally Posted by Vexx
There's never going to be a totally clear answer on this -- just a continual pendulum shift. However, I think the AP people and Mr. Warner are wearing their panties a bit too tight. The purpose of supplying large excerpts or cut'n'paste is to mitigate the "Slashdot effect", which is having so many people try to visit an article that it brings the server down like a DDOS attack would.
The real reason they're whining and moaning is that when you don't actually visit the site --- your eyeballs do not cross the advertising on it. It has nothing to do with "protection of creative works".
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Well, yes. The whole concept of intellectual property is not to protect the work itself (nobody's threatening to destroy it. We're not talking about censorship) but its money making ability. What else would it be about?