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| MediaNews won't renew contract with copyright troll Righthaven |
| 2011-09-09 |
| [Denver Post] MediaNews Group, owner of The Denver Post, will not renew its one-year contract with copyright enforcer Righthaven at the end of September, a company official said today. "Wouldja help me get this off the bottom of my shoe?" "E-w-w-w-w! What is it?" "Steve Gibson!" John Paton, who was appointed as MediaNews chief executive Wednesday, sent a message on Twitter later in the day that MediaNews had terminated its relationship with Righthaven "some time ago." "Anybody got any stain remover?" "No, sorry. But my timer says it's more than thirty seconds, so that 'Some time ago,' should definitely stand up in court." MediaNews vice president of field operations Sara Glines said Wednesday that the company had decided, before Paton arrived, to let the contract lapse at the end of the month, and that it had informed Righthaven. "We haven't made any money from it, and we've lost circulation because now people hate us. Other than that, everything is fine." "It's a model that isn't working very well for us," she said. "It's something we felt was important to try because we are committed to protecting copyright, but it hasn't worked the way we expected." "We soaked the whole organization in Clorox but you can still smell it!" |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Oh, the imagery!!! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-09-09 15:49 |
| #2 I know the feeling. One time I read through the comments at Daily Kos. I had to shower with bleach and a wire brush |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-09-09 14:24 |
| #1 Years ago, I put on old clothes, raingear, and a canister mask and went down into the clarifier of a sewage treatment tank to change the plumbing of a unit that was plumbed wrong. When I came up, I hosed down, but my clothes had absorbed the smell, so I washed them. Still had the smell. Tried everything but it was always there. Had to throw them away. Never forgot that septic sludge smell. That is what the MediaNews Group has now --- a septic stink that will not go away, whatever they do. They are stuck with it. When you lay down in sludge, you smell like sh*t. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-09-09 01:52 |