Posted on 06/24/2002 8:39:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
As part of our settlement with the LAT/WP, we have agreed to post only short excerpts and links from the following LAT/WP related publications:
Page 14: Tribune Broadcasting and Television.
Page 15: Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Hartford Courant, News Day.
Page 16: Times Mirror companies.
Page 18: The Washington Post, The Daily Herald Company, The Gazette Newspapers.
Page 19: Legislate, Newsweek, Post Newsweek Companies.
If this is the case, the solution is not to just do excerpts but to use the tag which can be rendered in every modern Web browser, including text-only browsers. Now granted there are people out there still using Netscape 4.x however, with the founding of the Mozilla project and its derivatives including Netscape 6/7, these freepers can upgrade their browser for free. The resource requirements are no more stringent for the newer Mozilla-based browsers than for the archaic Netscape 4.x. (The Opera Web browser also runs quite nicely on legacy hardware, too.)
That being said, if we used here, we would most likely add impressions for these sites since the entire content of the page including the ads would be displayed on each page, especially considering the fact that most freepers do not visit the sites in question. If these dumb liberal companies had any brains they'd have pushed for instead of excerpts.
The fact that would give more hits to these papers is about the only drawback I can see to my proposal. And with a "problem" like this, we could charge them for the free ads this way ;)
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but wasn't the contention of Tribune and WPC that posting articles in their entirety deprived mainly harmed them by depriving them of potential ad revenues?
If this is the case, the solution is not to just do excerpts but to use the <IFRAME> tag which can be rendered in every modern Web browser, including text-only browsers. Now granted there are people out there still using Netscape 4.x however, with the founding of the Mozilla project and its derivatives including Netscape 6/7, these freepers can upgrade their browser for free. The resource requirements are no more stringent for the newer Mozilla-based browsers than for the archaic Netscape 4.x. (The Opera Web browser also runs quite nicely on legacy hardware, too.)
That being said, if we used <IFRAME> here, we would most likely add impressions for these sites since the entire content of the page including the ads would be displayed on each page, especially considering the fact that most freepers do not visit the sites in question. If these dumb liberal companies had any brains they'd have pushed for <IFRAME> instead of excerpts.
The fact that <IFRAME> would give more hits to these papers is about the only drawback I can see to my proposal. And with a "problem" like this, we could charge them for the free ads this way ;)
I addressed this issue in my message. For older computers, Mozilla or its derivatives (Netscape 6/7, K-Meleon) will work fine. If you don't want to use them (they are free) there are alternatives which work on cheap computers such as Opera. Macintosh and Linux users have additional alternatives for legacy hardware. In addition, IE 3/4 (which run nicely on 486s) also have support for <IFRAME>
2. The lawsuit wasn't about money, it was about censorship. FR made money for the LAT/WP, not lost it.
This is the ultimate truth, however the case being made by Tribune/WPC was that FR was depriving them of ad revenues (not that anyone clicks on them anyway). On this point, your argument is not with me; however, I can understand the reasons why JimRob chose to settle instead of take it all the way. It's been very tough on him as it has been and there's always the risk that FR would've had to move out of the United States or quit entirely.
Still, I'd like to see what JimRob has to say about my <IFRAME> proposal. I suppose it might be too late but only he can answer that one.
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As you can see, Opera can be run by almost any computer:
There are many other browsers which can be used on underpowered PCs as well including the Arachne browser which runs in DOS. I think even it can support <IFRAME> but I'm not sure since i haven't used it in a long while.
(Please, spare us. I'm jes' joking!)
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