By making the site require a paid subscription. You know, just like a regular newspaper.
When you post your content on the open web for everyone to read, guess what? Everyone can read it. Don't like it? Don't post it.
What the Slimes wants is for lots of people to come to their site and a view their ads. They are quite kind by collecting money from advertisers (their customers) while letting you (their product) view their spew for free. That's because producing news content is a business expense. Like electricity in a car factory. They use content to attract ad views.
But when Google uses their technology to view the Slimes spew (which they would produce anyway) they want a payday.
The Slimes doesn't want a solution to this problem. The solution is as old as .htaccess files.
They want a handout.
“What the Slimes wants is for lots of people to come to their site and a view their ads. They are quite kind by collecting money from advertisers .... They use content to attract ad views.”
I have tried to tell people that whenever we “freep” some lame MSNBC poll, we increase the sites hit count and therefore its ad revenue. No one listens.
Their chief complaint is that sites like FR take them to task for what we write.
Plain and simple. There are sites that have a “no except” policy. That means they don’t even want a hit.
There is plenty of original content on FR. FR threads get a “launching pad” for further discussion of and counter argument to the article posted (in full or excerpt).
When we do not have to excerpt, it makes it clear that an article has not been parsed to exhibit some passages “out of context”.
They take issue with FR. They blame the messenger, not just the click throughs.
MSNBC pointed out to web travellers when one of their polls had an FR thread asking FReepers to FReep it. They even gave a link back to said thread. And the FReepers let visitors know that all groups do this, there was no “dirty secret exposed”.