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More players jump into online content battle January 31, 2010 No Comments

Not content with Rupert Murdoch kicking up a fuss about online content, The Mirror Group have now jumped into the battle too.

Back in November, Murdoch famously criticised Google for allowing readers to read part of the articles on newspaper websites without charging. It threatened to block the search engine but mysteriously all seems to have now gone quiet on the subject…! Then a few weeks ago, out of nowhere, Murdoch decided to block the news aggregate site NewsNow from trawling it’s website. The corporation objects to the fact that the news site charges subsciption fees for clients to access newspaper articles. Read the rest of this entry »