News Corp Lawyer: Aggregators Steal From Us! News Corp: Hey Chec...

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 10/15/2009 - 10:15

We've already covered how Rupert Murdoch has flip flopped his position on free online news, but his recent foray into blaming search engines and aggregators is really reaching the height of hypocrisy.

We've already looked into the issue of aggregators and found there's no problem there at all.

Most aggregators either direct traffic to the original sites or are too small to matter. There's no evidence they actually siphon any traffic away at all... but it seems...

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