…to an email list that originally purported to be about the any-day-now triumph of “content” as an online business stretegy, but which devolved into simply re-ussuing all the top stories from the NY Times. Soon, such tactics might spread as a form of what the lawyers would call “intellectual property theft.” The paper’s about to charge annual subscriptions for its op-ed columnists, adding early access to the Sunday Book Review and other features into the deal.

Despite what the P-I‘s Bill Virgin sez, I don’t think such deals are going to work out. Of course, I could be wrong. And as a “content originator” searching for a new income stream, I might like it if I was wrong.