Good luck with this you idiots. A little SPI at the firewall, a little script to get rid of your cruft, and your digital wrapper is virtual toilet paper.

If you don’t like the way the internet works, by all means stay off it. We won’t miss you. In the meantime, we’ll certainly exercise our RIGHT to fair use, which is not up to you to arbitrate. Besides which, you don’t know what you’re talking about:

Each article — and, in the future, each picture and video — would go out with what The A.P. called a digital “wrapper,” data invisible to the ordinary consumer that is intended, among other things, to maximize its ranking in Internet searches. The software would also send signals back to The A.P., letting it track use of the article across the Web.

Is it data or is it software? You’re not allowed to push software onto my machine without my express consent. This means that at a minimum, you are going to have to pop up an interface requesting permission from EVERY machine’s owner, and you are going to have to track EVERY machine’s response in the affirmative, before you can send your spyware-laden article. What’s more, the usual method of cookies on the individual machines is probably not going to cut it, as I can remove cookies at will, and then you cannot prove that you had my permission to push software onto my machine.
Microsoft got pegged for doing this, so did Sony. You’re not that big a fish.
And at any rate, this is the sort of thing for which countermeasures will follow about five hours after you release each “innovative” obfuscation of your code.
All you can do is hurt your business. Feel free. This is what we mean when we say the old media doesn’t get new media.
So long, AP. It’s a shame things didn’t work out between us.