I don’t fully get this.

So what if bloglines runs ads? If a user adds the feed to their bloglines and bloglines has advertising on it so what?

What is the difference between bloglines (or newsgator online) running ads in their RSS feeder. They have bills to pay. Its free syndication for people like Netscape and their content. They have bills to pay to keep the site up, bandwidth and server charges etc. Would it be ok if a not-for-profit RSS reader that gave all its money to the Red Cross did the same thing? What about RSS readers that you have to pay for, like FeedDemon. I paid for my copy. I have netscape feeds in it… so should Newsgator pay Netscape for that?

Its interesting that Calacanis is the first to jump all over payperpost, doesn’t think YouTube is going to make it if they keep allowing copyrighted stuff on their site, but when it comes to an RSS reader putting ads up w/ his content on the page, he gets mad. He says:

Let’s face it, web-based RSS readers are–at the end of the day–web pages

I guess so, but again, the reader is adding the content in this case, not the RSS reader itself.

I can understand if a site is content scraping and then putting up ads, but an RSS reader that a user is in control of what feeds get added? How about netvibes? Pageflakes? Is Netscape going to block them from using their RSS feeds too?

What’s the big deal here? Am I missing something?

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