This is like removing the bibliography from books or any references to other materials in the book. Is the bookwriter infringing on the copyright by naming the title of another book, quoting it, or naming another source? How many books would have to be re-written before printing if this were applied? His argument that allowing links would make it so expensive for news sources that only the giants would be left is also nonsense, because these smaller sources (though they may ride other source's news) have shaken the giants through their own profitable ways of broadcasting the news. There are all kinds of ways to make money on the internet, and content providers are still discovering new methods. TV, newspaper, and magazine advertisements are not the only way to generate income for content. If anything, these sources will become better networked and utilize each other's sources to get the news. I don't see any difference in the competition and success as there was previously. These old dinosaurs are just trying to protect their territory and keep print in service because they're slow to adapt to the internet and they make huge profits off TV. Who's to stay a smaller news source wouldn't put out better programming than CNN or MSNBC (is FoxNews really news?)? Besides, most of the TV giants watch Facebook, Twitter, and Digg to get their news. Talk about trying to bite the hand that feeds them!

No surprise that a post about eBay brings out unrelated complaints about fees. The Toolbar never had ad banners, and in fact you can fill up about the whole thing with the various search buttons (just like the Google toolbar). I did customer service for the Toolbar, and it was free, didn't spam you, didn't spy on you, and really wasn't a gauranteed source of profit. It was just a nice thing to give members who wanted it. Not many people used it, and I'm suprised they didn't can the whole thing. The only reason they didn't build it for Firefox was the same reason they didn't program Enhanced Image Services for Macintosh; there just wasn't enough incentive. Believe me, they wanted to, but I think more directly profitable innovations are going to take a little higher priority. If you want to complain about fees, go to powersellersunite or post on eBay's boards like everybody else.