Toronto Star: Anti-Blogging

A link that Saskboy pointed me to today over at Werner Patels on Media is ousting the Toronto Star.

Apparently, they are going to be billing everyone $200 simply for linking directly to one of their news articles. As Werner pointed out, there is no way that the Toronto Star can claim ownership of a link on someone's personal space. Not only that, but newspapers these days rely on bloggers to send traffic their way, and the Toronto Star has got this one seriously wrong.

I would like to see them try to enforce this law and watch the blogosphere erupt on the mainstream media. Werner made another great point. It does make quite a bit of sense for them to try and limit people from simply reproducing the article on a blog, and I understand why that would bother their legal team... however, trying to stop an unlimited amount of people from driving traffic to their site. Crazy.