So I will be making a concerted effort to never link to or use another AP story on the blog. Why? Because their recent attempt to charge people who quote more than five words of any AP story online just goes to show what monumental, malicious assholes the AP's lawyers and copyright people are.

I mean never, ever, not even after AP backs off once they realize how stupid the attempt to gouge bloggers makes them look. Although everyone is justifiably worried about how media will pay for itself in a free/digital world, unilaterally trying to rewrite the existing laws of fair use is not only a terrible solution, it just goes to show you why these media companies are in the fix they're in in the first place. The world is still too full of content providers for me to ever have to use AP again.