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News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch threatened to sue the British Broadcasting for allegedly stealing content from his company's newspapers and said News Corp. is considering pulling its stories from Google news searches.
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In an interview with Australia's Sky News, of which News Corp. [NWSA
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"But we're better," he said in the interview broadcast Saturday. "And anyway, if you look at them, most of their stuff is stolen from the newspapers now, and we'll be suing them for copyright. They'll have to spend a lot more money on a lot more reporters to cover the world when they can't steal from newspapers."
But he said he didn't think the matter would end up in a courtroom.
"They know the law," he said. "They will adapt."
There was no immediate response from the BBC.
In August, Murdoch said visitors to the Web sites of newspapers owned by News Corp., which include The New York Post and The Times of London, will have to start paying fees to read the news within the next year.
Murdoch told Sky News that once the company's online pay model is launched, it will probably remove its stories from Google [GOOG
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"I think we will, but that's when we start charging," he said.
Murdoch acknowledged that search engines such as Google direct traffic to his company's Web sites. But he said the benefit of that is marginal.
"What's the point of having someone come occasionally who likes a headline they see on Google?" he said. "We'd rather have fewer people coming to our Web sites and paying."
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