Translation: we still want all the traffic Google is sending our way for free so we can generate enough page views to keep our advertisers happy and revenues up (barely), but we also want to be able to charge people for reading our content and punish those who spread this information to even more people. Surely, that will safeguard journalism.

It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry when you read the above article on TechCrunch. (Don't bother reading the news release, I did, and it's sheer cluelessness on many levels has given me a headache.)