Originally Posted by Nathan

The problem with RSS is that when it was invented it was for just that, syndication, to allow a site to for example list headlines from a news paper.

Thats the IDEA of RSS. The problem started when blogs came around and people wanted everyone to read their views, so RSS got more and more content added to it.

Next step in the evolution was when all those RSS readers came along. People started using them to read RSS feeds from a bunch of different sites at the same time. Again, RSS feeds were supposed to hold SUMMARIES only, not FULL data.

Because of the whole RSS craze people started to push whole articles in RSS and now we have this simple problem. If RSS would have stayed the way it should have, then all you would be stealing would be an introduction to the article, people would still have to go to the site itself to actually READ it.