My dad does that! Damned if I can convince him he's valuing his time at below minimum wage when he drives 15 min to save a less than a buck.
Content owners are responsible for getting their content taken down if it's showing up in areas they don't like. Content owners need to quit complaining and do their job.
How many times have you gone through that process? It's time and labor intensive. Should a content owner be required to devote 5% of their profits to whack a mole in this pursuit? 50%, 110%?
That's not my problem to figure out. The content owners have to figure that out. More and more content is appearing on the internet for free. Internet users are sharing knowledge of where the content is appearing for free. Content owners are getting weaker every day. Don't side with the losing team. You'll also waste money while you're on the losing side.
First off, you clearly value the content that the content owners produce or you wouldn't steal it. Here's how it works. When the content owners can't turn a profit they go out of business. That content goes away. You go from the kind of reporting and analysis you get from WSJ and FT to whatever you want to call the crap they put up at zerohedge, which itself depends on the original sources that publications like WSJ and FT developed. When you put all the non-derivative news sources out of business, the free guys have nothing to derive their stuff from and you end up with jack shit. Your focus on "losers" and the "losing side" it interesting, what makes you fixated on that rather than a healthy ecosystem that helps everyone in the community?
Don't be so scared. This country has gone through 9/11, and many other difficulties, and we always adjust and go on to better things. We can survive an environment where media corporations have to adjust to the internet. Every day, more items appear for free that can't be taken down. The internet is changing everything, almost by the hour. Jamie Dimon just reversed his stance against Bitcoin, and Bitcoin has gone on to new highs. The "because-I-said-so" economy, with an old command and control structure, is wilting hourly with all the things you can do for free on the internet. You can rush around paying money, hoping to prop up failing content providers, but it's an idealistic crusade that won't work in the long run.
I was a military pilot for over 20 years, including the 9/11 period, so please don't lecture me about being "scared". It's nice to talk in broad generalities, especially when you've clearly never run a business. It's interesting to hear someone frame everything around "losers", says a lot about that person. If you want to actually address any of the points I made about generating content, someone might take you seriously. When you respond to a set of concrete points about financial journalism content generation with a riff about Jamie Dimon and Bitcoin, followed by broad platitudes about a changing economy, no one will. You have a lot to learn about the difference between cost and price, and the price you pay for getting something for "free", we'll just leave it at that.
@wilburbear Boy you are thick ! Re-read what Sig said...in your "new world" where will the quality content come from ??!! Your freebies on the internet are just an illusion or a short term marketing play, every successful internet company has a business model that either turns a profit or is hoping/forcasting to. I'll even give you a specific example.....I use stockchart.com. It is a has basic free site, BUT if you are really going to trade and desire the advantages/convienences of its search engine, etc. the cost is $25/ month. I find it worth while, others may not. Do you really think any institution is putting their best content out there for free on a continuing basis ?? Would you ?