Re:We’re dropping Google Ads
by flashman on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:53AM
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> Maybe the publishers do actually have a case for a new class of intellectual property protection.
No. They gambled that they could make money giving their content away for free with ads on it. They were never guaranteed an income that way, and to legislate one for them is a terrible way to proceed. We have a name for those people in Australia: rent-seekers.
No. They gambled that they could make money giving their content away for free with ads on it. They were never guaranteed an income that way, and to legislate one for them is a terrible way to proceed. We have a name for those people in Australia: rent-seekers.