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AP are kidding themselves.

roberto_maietta@... 12th Jan 2010

Frankly, there are thousands of sources of news, and Google wll be able to get news from anywhere, on anything.

It also never ceases to amaze me that the news people think the content is theirs. How is this possible? The event occured to someone else - if anything, AP are stealing the news from the owner, reporting it, making money on it, and the ACTUAL content owner, ie who it HAPPENED to, gets nothing.

Think about it, Roger Federer wins Wimbledon. This is an event to do with Roger, not AP. Yet AP thinks it is the content owner?? Who's kidding who here? AP should get off its high horse, and admit they are ripping off others FIRST, ie Roger in this example.

As regards costs of production? Come on - in this digital age, everything goes on the web the instant it happens, in raw original content, without the need for censors to spin the content completely 180 degrees from what it was.

AP are a joke. The sooner they fall by the wayside, the better.