Comments on: Why Did The NYT Get The Pulse News Reader Yanked From iTunes?

By: Martha

Martha — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:02:43 +0000

Its really bad. I can’t think its from any different angle. There must be some inner reason or clue behind this. What that might be?

By: Shyam Somanadh

Shyam Somanadh — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:17:23 +0000

This has always been a grey area with RSS feeds. Almost every TOS regarding RSS feeds specify that the usage is free only for non-commercial use, but almost everyone who is in the business of crawling content or aggregating content use the feeds to meet commercial ends.

Even though this is rarely enforced, this is not the first time something like this has happened (it has happened before between publishers & aggregators) and it won’t be the last. It is when the product you make using that RSS feed starts making enough money/visibility that the water starts heating up.

The publisher does have a right to enforce its terms, but selective enforcement is not nice either. I’d say just get it over and done with and make summary-only feeds open to commercial use too (since they are being used that way in any case and enforcing every case would cost unjustifiable amount of time and money).

By: Julianna Moore

Julianna Moore — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:37:52 +0000

The NYT spokesperson has bad grammar.

By: The Reptile

The Reptile — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:50:07 +0000

Seems to me that they’re charging customers a 1 time subscription for the application,not the content. The Times is over reacting.

By: jad

jad — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:03:51 +0000

The people at the New York Times, including their low level employees, should be ashamed of this heavy-handed bullying. It’s not the way they should be acting.

By: contentnext

contentnext — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:26:11 +0000

Total overreaction and misunderstanding of what an RSS reader is. So since my Mac’s RSS reader allows me to access their feed NewsGator shouldn’t be able to sell it to me? All that’s going to happen is that the next version won’t have their feeds and users are going to have to manually add them if they want them. I’m not sure I get this in the slightest. I know what they (NYT) are getting at. But the whole thing is just silly.