"Tribune said it asked Google to stop using Google to crawl newspaper Web sites but Google continued to do so."

Wait, really? I find this disingenuous to say the least, coming from the same Tribune company that created a skunkworks project six months ago explicitly tasked with co-opting and "gaming" online communities of note (Digg, twitter, flickr and others.) They're desperate for pageviews. How many readers would they lose if the Googlebot actually kept out?

And can't they just block it out with a robot.txt file?