Thats right, the head of faux news wants to start up a lawyers group like the RIAA/MPAA and go after people posting news items on the web, as well as search engines who allow news to be found in searches.
I guess we will see less news here in this forum if that happens, eh?
I have mixed feelings on this.
First, it is an outrage that anyone would claim to 'own' the news. Are they going to sue me if I post the scores of a local football match, if they cover that match? If I post my thoughts on an election, will I be sued if my thoughts are similar to a writer at their news outlet? It seems they again want to do what they did before - restrict news and make sure it only comes from a few government authorised sources, like it did prior to the Internet. This bothers me.
Then on the other hand, if faux news wants to restrict its content to pay users only and legally go after people who repost it on facebook, blogs, etc. - well that can't be anything but good. The eejits who follow faux news will be hunted down the same company they love and drug into court and sued like they were some type of file sharing leftist.
I kinda like that idea.