Mediaite Runs on Video It Doesn’t Pay For. Can It Keep Going?

Can Mediaite continue to run big chunks of other people’s videos without their permission? Dan Abrams’s media site, which depends on clips from TV news operations to fuel its traffic, thinks it can. So does Magnify.net, which actually hosts the clips for Abrams. But DailyFinance’s Jeff Bercovici wonders if one of the media giants will finally bring the hammer down.