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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (203238)	5/20/2009 2:25:41 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

It was John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. Not a clown, actually....

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (203238)	5/21/2009 6:26:21 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Re: while he didn't have a solution for newspapers, he considered them to be a national treasure that should be preserved... A bunch of sites like Google, Yahoo, (and this one) draw readers and advertisers largely by posting the key paragraphs of a story (or the whole story) written by staff paid by newspapers. It's like copying a DVD and selling it. "Fair use" has been stretched totally out of proportion and it's killing the source of income for the new organizations that are vital for a free, market based economy to survive. I get two papers delivered every morning (New York Times and Chicago Tribune), then mainly read their contents for free on-line. But I feel that it's a better use of my income than most of my tax payments... It may not make sense, but I think it's the right thing to do.