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The Associated Press … published a web form through which intimidated parties can give the AP money in return for “permission” to publish as few as five words. In this spirit, I will shortly be putting up my own Web form through which people can PayPal me money in exchange for my promise to not blow up the moon.
The Blogger backlash is going to be enormous. I cannot begin to voice how broken this model is. There is a middle ground similar to music licensing that is going to have to be worked out. Until then, the blogosphere is going to revolt. TechCrunch has already banned AP stories.
