Slog - Comments on The Napster of Newspapers http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_napster_of_newspapers Slate has a bizarre article about a newspaper—the Montgomery County Bulletin, circulation 20,000—behaving like a blog. An ill-behaved blog that aggregates content without links and attribution. Over the course of three years, stories from Rolling Stone, Slate, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Guardian, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune were all reprinted—slightly altered—in the Bulletin, sometimes under the byline "Mark Williams," sometimes under no byline at all. The Bulletin lists just five employees—"Mark Williams," a calendar editor, a sales person, and the publisher, who was reluctant to cooperate with Slate on the story. The publisher's name? A fake-sounding "Mike Ladyman." And the... Copyright 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:30:53 -0800 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:21:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Information just wants to be free.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_napster_of_newspapers#c1095786 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_napster_of_newspapers#c1095786 Media Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:05:53 -0800 Comment by Non If Eli wrote this post it would have been a huuuuge blockquote followed by a link under his name.

only a slight difference of journalistic criminality

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_napster_of_newspapers#c1095840 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_napster_of_newspapers#c1095840 Media Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:50:08 -0800 Comment by John I would guess that a DMCA complaint to ValueWeb, the Bulletin's web host, would make the site go away pretty quickly.

]]> John http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_napster_of_newspapers#c1095869 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_napster_of_newspapers#c1095869 Media Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:08:44 -0800 Comment by hohoho green giant It already shut down.

]]> hohoho green giant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_napster_of_newspapers#c1096554 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_napster_of_newspapers#c1096554 Media Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:21:17 -0800