Re:When newspapers are gone, what will you miss?
by tom_rath on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @09:54AM
(#433657)
There are a few of those.
They're actually quite vile: The webcomic artists depend on the ad revenue received from people visiting their sites, so the scrapers which aggregate other web comics end up leeching bandwidth while snatching revenue from the content creators.
Re:When newspapers are gone, what will you miss?
by gaius on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @10:03AM
(#433675)
Yes and no; IIRC the XKCD chap says he makes his money from merchandising. But you're right; people who want their content syndicated set up RSS on their sites and people who don't, don't.
They're actually quite vile: The webcomic artists depend on the ad revenue received from people visiting their sites, so the scrapers which aggregate other web comics end up leeching bandwidth while snatching revenue from the content creators.