http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2006/10/26/pay-for-rss or, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:10:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2006/10/26/pay-for-rss#comment-23 Chris Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:17:54 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=11#comment-23 Heh. I do this myself too. I've got a little utility called <a href="http://rss2email.infogami.com/" rel="nofollow">RSS2Email</a> which I give a bunch of feeds to, and then it emails me the content... Say for instance, this blog entry of yours... I customized it a bit so that I have my sites emailing me posts every 5 minutes. Some news sites every 30. Others everyt hour, and others, like people's blogs that don't get updated as often, once or twice a day. They don't always come with the full story, but it works pretty well. Once it's in my email, it's there until I decide to make it go away. Besides that, there's really nothing preventing anyone from going to a website and saving the content as a PDF either. At some point these greedy bastard companies are going to realize that once something is on the intraweb, it's out of their control and no matter what they do to try and prevent it, people will find a way to work around it. Heh. I do this myself too. I’ve got a little utility called RSS2Email which I give a bunch of feeds to, and then it emails me the content… Say for instance, this blog entry of yours… I customized it a bit so that I have my sites emailing me posts every 5 minutes. Some news sites every 30. Others everyt hour, and others, like people’s blogs that don’t get updated as often, once or twice a day. They don’t always come with the full story, but it works pretty well. Once it’s in my email, it’s there until I decide to make it go away. Besides that, there’s really nothing preventing anyone from going to a website and saving the content as a PDF either. At some point these greedy bastard companies are going to realize that once something is on the intraweb, it’s out of their control and no matter what they do to try and prevent it, people will find a way to work around it.

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