Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content | Slashdot

This is tech humour, it mightn’t appeal to many but I’ve lifted a few gems to lighten the mood a little

presidenteloco writes

Dear Mr Murdoch

If you don’t want to be hyperlinked to, you might consider not putting your content on the worldwide web.

interkin3tic says:

You have to look at it from his perspective.

Basically his perspective is “Someone else has money. I want it.” …

Not the best perspective by my standards, but he has many times more money than I do, so who am I to say he’s a F*#@#ing idiot.

gslavik offers this brief analysis -

Media companies want Google to pay, not us (consumers). Because you can charge Google $X (where X has 7 digits) whereas to get consumer money, you have to produce a useful product.

Whereas fuzzyfuzzyfungus wants to hand Rupe a box of tissues…

Oh; but the poor baby wants it both ways: He wants google to index his stuff, and pay him for the privilege of indexing his stuff.

GaryPatterson stands up for Australia -

Murdoch is not an Australian – he gave up his citizenship as soon as it hindered his US interests….On behalf of Australians everywhere, I’m sorry that he’s your problem now.

ivoras maintains there is a win-win solution:

There’s a very simple, mutually beneficial solution to this – Google should do Mr. Murdoch a favor and stop indexing his content. It’s really a win-win scenario for everyone (including readers).

Cytid is obviously a punter -

Rupert is something else…I bet he thinks the dewey decimal system “steals” content from libraries by classifying and categorizing books.

HangingChad on the other hand seems resigned to a life without Rupert -

Gosh, what tragedy. Guess we’ll just have to suck it up and get by without their relentlessly negative hate spew.

Don’t let the search engine door hit you on the way out bunghole.

But Screwmaster has an ulterior motive. He thinks Google has much more important things to do…

Google’s spider really has better things to do than index Fox News … for example, my great aunt Betty’s second cousin’s daughter’s wedding photos.

All of them perfectly good and reasonable suggestions! Perhaps I should print them out and mail them to Mr Murdoch. I’m feeling so generous I might even put a stamp on the envelope

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