"NewsRight" . . .Is this a tool that will be used to kill the internet?

[annabanana]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ap-nytimes-mcclatchy-others-launch-newsright-online-rights-clearinghouse/2012/01/05/gIQAgBwxcP_story.html

The Associated Press and 28 news organizations, including The New York Times Co. and The Washington Post Co., are launching a company that will measure the unpaid online use of their original reporting and seek to convert unauthorized websites, blogs and other newsgathering services into paying customers.

The company, called NewsRight, brings together efforts started by the AP and its partners in October 2010 to track the use of stories on websites, blogs and other Internet forums through what it calls the News Registry.

How does SOPA tie into this?

Is my tinfoil hat too tight?

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Or help define the goals of OWS

We need to Address & Attack ,Botcotts on Misanthrope Systematic Misinformation when and where it is possible.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Nothing in the world

to stop them making their online access chargeable which may be the end result.

Guardian sales are now down to 226000 / day : partly attributable to some using online only. As such its foreseen they will fold in less than 5 years.

[kurt_cagle]

3. Press Gateways

Clay Shirky recently wrote a piece (looking for link now) talking about why press paywalls will ultimately prove counterproductive

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[*] Advertisers don't want to be behind the paywall, because this represents a much smaller group of potential viewers.
[*] Writers generally don't want to be behind the paywall, because they also get fewer viewers.
[*] Readers, when encountering a teaser leading to a paywall, will often either look elsewhere for the article or not read that article, meaning conversion raters are very low.
[/list]

Given that, it's not really surprising that the only time where paywalls do appear to work are when you're dealing with specialist content - from financial news to ironically porn.

This has the same feeling of desparation that paywalls have, and will go over just as well ... and yes, there is no question that the same forces here are also behind SOPA.

[sendero]

4. It's amusing.

... to watch dying industries (newspapers, music companies) shoot themselves in the foot and acellerate their own demise with idiotic ideas like this one.

Here's a clue for you "news" guys. You have shot your credibility. Your product has very little marginal value because nobody with any sense trusts anything you have to say. You wonder why almost every attempt you have made to monetize your product over the internet has failed? Look in the mirror. People are not going to pay for spin and propaganda.