Wanker of the week: Miami New Times

TMO on how the Miami New Times tries to spin a David and Goliath story with Pystar and Apple:

Two men fighting the good fight against a corporate behemoth bent on controlling our technical lives – a company willing to trod upon Lady Liberty in the process with their “millionaire lawyers” riding around in their Bentleys and Jaguars and stuff. Sniff…It’s a story for the ages.

Or so The Miami New Times would have us believe. The Pedraza brothers are the owners of Psystar, and the New Times has published an ode to these two secondhanders that reads somewhere between a love letter and a fairly tale, mixed with a splash of yellow journalism.

Here is it in the journalists own words:

For hundreds of buyers — and lately a score of copycats in Los Angeles and around the world — the brothers’ bold move has meant freedom: Mac’s acclaimed software has been liberated from its pricey hardware.

What a load of crock. I wonder if it would be okay if I took every Miami New Times story and re-printed it with a new site name and new byline, plaster ads and make money of Miami New Times work? Interesting enough, here is the Miami New Times’ rights of use:

Copyright and Trademarks:
All materials on the Site, including without limitation, logos, images, text, illustrations, audio and video files are protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, or other proprietary rights which are either owned by or licensed to the Site or owned by other parties who have posted on the Site. Materials from the Site and from any other web site owned, operated, controlled, or licensed by the Site may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way.

I guess its not okay to reproduce their hard work, but it’s ok for a couple of twerps to reuse the hard work of some faceless corporation (for the sake our troops, I am sure).

Wankers.