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A.P. Not Quite Grokking the “Internet”

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Apparently as part of its new effort to flex its proprietary muscle over the Internet, an Associated Press regional manager recently sent out a threatening letter to a country music station for posting A.P. news videos on its website without authorization.

The station’s operation manager humbly pointed out that if the news company doesn’t want websites embedding its videos, it should probably stop posting said videos, with embedding code, to the A.P. YouTube channel.

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4 Responses to “A.P. Not Quite Grokking the “Internet””

  1. #1 |  Nando |  April 10th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Haha, no kidding. Wy have the embedding code if you don’t want people to embed your video?

  2. #2 |  KBCraig |  April 10th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    The AP has never “gotten it” when it comes to the internet.

  3. #3 |  old |  April 11th, 2009 at 12:48 am

    It would be pretty simple for the AP to disable embedding of youtube videos. It would also be pretty simple for AP to put a few lines in the robots.txt file so google does not crawl their site. I wonder what would happen to the AP then?

  4. #4 |  Tokin42 |  April 11th, 2009 at 7:49 am

    Well, if hillbillys could read news then none of this unpleasantness would have happened.

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