Woot Asks AP To Pay Up For Quoting Woot Blog Post

In today's Woot offering, they mock the Associated Press for its coverage of the Woot acquisition, because the AP just happens to have also copied text from the awesome Woot letter.

The same AP that threatens bloggers for copying headlines and snippets. The same AP that insists it needs "hot news" to protect others from "free riding" on its work. And, most importantly, the same AP that has a famously ridiculous pricelist for quoting five words or more from an AP article.

And thus, the smart folks at Woot calculated that the AP owes Woot $17.50 for quoting Woot without permission.