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Gawker's Big Media Heist Huffington Post

03.08.09

To break the U.S. attorneys firing, and, though it gives me no pleasure to admit it, without the concerted efforts of right wing bloggers, Dan Rather would probably still be cozily ensconced somewhere at CBS.

The end result of all of these pressures converging is that even though arguably more media is being consumed than ever before, with greater efficiency of publication, fewer barriers to entry, and more access, the old media companies that create the lion's share of content are losing money to much smaller competitors like Gawker.

Is this bad? Should acknowledgment of the source of original content be accompanied by a share of the profits from page views of that content? How would this be enforced?

It's clearly not nice to ripoff someone else's work. But, while intellectually dishonest, it can be profitable. Dane Cook and Ned Arnel Holness, better known as "Carlos Mencia," (Holness plays a Latino character in the same way that Dan Whitney, aka Larry the Cable Guy, who attended private schools in Florida, plays a redneck) blatantly ripped off the far more talented Louis C.K.'s comedy and made millions doing so. Should Louis C.K. have a way to recoup his lost profits?

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