Outlaw hotlinking…save the newspapers. [Idiocricy makes a resounding display of stupidity]

Various newspaper companies and publishers have been racking their ink stained brains for months on end trying to find a way to regain lost profits and income. In recent times, advertising income has sank, (newspapers main source of money) meaning that these publishers are having to look for new sources. Unfortunately, instead of downsizing their overbloated companies with god awful antiquated business practices, they choose to conjour up ridiculous and completely incompitent band-aid fixes for an amputated limb type of problem. What exactly is there super great idea?!

- Outlaw hotlinking to copyrighted material brought to you by Mr. Judge Richard Posner, a United States Court of Appeals judge in Chicago. Sadly, this moron was even was once considered as a potential Supreme Court nominee. Thank god that didn’t happen.

It really pains me and confuses how people so stupid and oblivious to technology and how the internet works can hold such positions in our society. I think it should be mandatory that any lawmaker who deals with anything tech related should be required to take classes on the matter if they don’t already understand how it works. I mean really, idiots like this guy are the poison of our society — embracing and supporing laws that completely ignore common sense, reality, and the consumer and instead give special attention and love to big business and corporations.

In reality, outlawing and barring linking to copyrighted material would do the exact opposite of what ‘ol think skull here thinks. Instead of increasing revenue and readership, it will completely ruin newspapers all together. With no outside sources linking in, no one is going to be reading online. Heck, most of the views to online newspapers come more from people who don’t already pay for a hard copy. Search engines and links again make up a huge chunk of online newspaper viewership. But if they really want to go down this road more power to them.

And let’s get one thing straight Mr. Richard Posner (I’m not even giving you the credit of being a judge), I do not need your, some court, or copyright holder’s permission to link to his material. If he nor some other incompetent person or company doesn’t want to use the World Wide Web, which was created to expand, share, and spread ideas with hotlinking as the bread and butter of this wonderful digital world in the first place, then get the hell of the internet and take your sh*t with you. I guarantee that for every newspaper or journalist that dies online will be replaced by at least two more ready and willing to pick up the pieces and do what they couldn’t — embrace technology.

So who’s tired of stupid people? Can I get an amen?!

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