Cuban’s Plan to Kill Aggregators: End Free Links | Newsweek Daniel Lyons:
Since the dawn of the Internet, news organizations have accepted the notion that the only way to survive the onslaught of the Web is to publish everything online, at no cost to readers, and let anyone in the world synopsize it, refer to it, and copy and link to it. You can’t charge for your work—that’s rule No. 1 on the Internet. And you can’t block others from copying or linking to it—that’s rule No. 2.
But those rules are starting to look stupid.