Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Stealing the news (was Re: Mohawks Oppose Golf Course Plan)
Message-ID: <3968@looking.on.ca>
Date: 9 Aug 89 00:10:47 GMT
References: <1930@yunccn.UUCP> <3938@looking.on.ca> <618421341.17566@telly.on.ca> <3954@looking.on.ca> <618540279.4999@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: rebuttal

In article <618540279.4999@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>Speak from facts or firsthand knowledge, please.

The wireservice market is transforming into the electronic publishing
market.  They're starting to take a different stance from what they took
when the Sun bought UPI.  Wireservice companies are starting to make a
bigger and bigger chunk of their revenue from electronic sales.

Consider Reuters, the biggest.  You wanna take a guess as to how much
of their revenue comes from sales to media clients such as newspapers?
Compared to direct feeds of information (mostly financial) into company
computer systems?

If your guess had 2 digits in it, it's wrong.  It's 6%.

>Brad, you may consider it worthwhile to be bothered about such things,
>when even the wire services themselves aren't bothered. That you choose
>to do so publicly was the point of my original posting.

The wireservice people I talk to today are bothered.  Oh, it's not as
much of an issue or problem as software piracy, but they know that it
soon will be.

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473