I'm not really pro or anti-Luke Ford, but on the face of it what he basically does is pull relevant and interesting stories off other sites. This is similar to what Matt Drudge does, but Luke crosses the like into copyright infringment by cut-n-pasting the whole story, or large portions. Morally I think he tries to get around it by putting links, maybe some people even gave him permission to do it from their sites, I don't know.

Now, do I mind that he does that? Not at all. I always liked having that wide range of opinions and stories from a variety of sources all at one place.

And like Drudge, Luke does chase down stories, does interviews when needed, etc. And since he puts links, people can drill down if they want, so for the most part everybody wins.

As far as pay for it? Why would you since most of his content is pulled directly from another source? Even the original content is largely pulled from marginal sources. Hey, I like Rob Spallone too, but come on.

Malice