Reply #36: There's talk about the Major Media Companies enforcing copywrite laws

[KoKo]

because they don't like their work being cut and pasted or showing up on You Tube.

I already notice that sites like MSNBC, CNN, Yahoo and WaPo and some others, make it ever more difficult to cut an paste a snip of an article I want to post on DU. Either ads block it or I have to scroll to "Print" and my printer immediately goes to print rather than giving me a version I can copy. Sometimes it's so difficult, I don't have the time...so I don't post the article.

Tightening the Copywrite laws so that even snips of articles posted on websites are forbidden would be a simple way of them shutting down the Liberal Internets. While the argument could be made that not allowing anymore "sharing" of the MSM's work would be bad for their business...we already know that these big companies make their money off their other business and not providing the little news they give. I think this will be their first step and I expect it before the 2008 Election. It's just so simple and easy for them to do with courts stacked with their own judges and a PR Machine that will explain how their work is being stolen by Bloggers and Posters who are unfairly abusing copywrite laws.