It's a non-event.
We can still summarize and even still copy and paste small portions of the articles; but just snatching the entire thing off of another site and pasting it here is a pretty brazen violation of their property rights, when everyone out there (and their dog) has some sort of stake in the world-wide intar-nets game these days.
What prompted this was a friendly but entirely direct email from a writer for the Columbus Dispatch.
All people are losing are the rest of the words used to convey the message, what they're not losing is the message itself. If they wish to read the original work in its original form, there's a link on the same post. What we gain in being able to browse quickly through for the content we actually care about.
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The ads and all copy with this type of setup you have. stupid.
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I don't really understand this statement, otherwise I'd try to respond to it.
For sites that require log-ins (but not paid subscriptions) we can be a little more aggressive about how much we paste, and also include a link to the enormously helpful bugmenot.com as well.