Yes, this will kill off what’s left of local news and a lot of other sites if enacted. It’s incredibly stupid and the fact that the lobby group News Media Canada working for newspapers and digital publishers are trying to do this just shows that even 25 and 30 years after the internet became truly mainstream, these publishers still don’t understand how any of it works or how to survive.
Yes, this will kill off what’s left of local news and a lot of other sites if enacted. It’s incredibly stupid and the fact that the lobby group News Media Canada working for newspapers and digital publishers are trying to do this just shows that even 25 and 30 years after the internet became truly mainstream, these publishers still don’t understand how any of it works or how to survive.
Spot on. All the entities that supported this change are about to find out that what little traffic they once got is suddenly completely gone.
I could understand and even support an argument for imposing this kind of regulation on excerpts, but links? This is dumb, and self-destructive.