• GigOm, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 2:25 PM

GigOm is suggesting -- albeit in the Fox Newsian form of a question -- that The New York Times just "declared war" on news aggregators. In its tireless pursuit of a viable business model, "The newspaper company appears to be sending its lawyers after news aggregators that use its RSS feeds in commercial applications," writes GigaOm.

Citing a report from All Things Digital, GigOm reports that the Pulse newsreader app was pulled from the Apple store after a legal threat from the NYT over unauthorized use of the company's RSS feeds. In an email that Apple just sent to developers of Pulse, senior counsel for The Times states: "The Pulse News Reader app makes commercial use of the NYTimes.com and Boston.com RSS feeds, in violation of their Terms of Use ... Thus, the use of our content is unlicensed."

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