After looking like a bully, Instapaper CEO Marco Arment has apologized for blocking Apple blog 9to5Mac off the read-it-later service.
In the first instance in which the copyright dispute between publishers and Instapaper is visible to users, the read-it-later app has blocked tech blog 9to5Mac from its service because Instapaper doesn't want to "save pages from publishers who object to the service," founder Marco Arment told Buzzfeed's Matt Buchanan.
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