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But once these plans apply to every single EU state Google will in effect have to choose between leaving the EU market or paying. That's at least the plan they
by DominikR 11y ago
But once these plans apply to every single EU state Google will in effect have to choose between leaving the EU market or paying.
That's at least the plan they have come up with.
If they severely limit the Internet in the process doesn't matter to them. They'll create a shitty EU alternative if they have to.
- chris_wot 11y agoIf it becomes uneconomic, then that's precisely what Google will have to do. What I suspect will then happen is that news outlets will have to offshore their news distribution to outside of Europe. Ironic, really.
- tomp 11y agoHow much do you think Google earns with News? I'm pretty sure they would simply shut down the service EU-wide, and continue providing just their core business, Google Search.
- rralian 11y agoI hate to say this, because I'm generally anti- big company. But the major players on the internet need to band together and act collectively. If google, microsoft, facebook, amazon, etc. responded by blocking access, I think the EU would straighten out pretty quickly.
- chris_wot 11y agoActually, it would be better to create a decentralised, anonymous linking protocol. How this could be done, I have no idea. That would legitimise Torrent link trackers :-) Kind of the Spanish governments worst nightmare really. It would mean that they couldn't stop the link trackers, there would be a band of citizens who summarised news articles and made other citizens more politically active and it would help spread pirated content. It would also cut out the middle man (Google News). Classic own goal really.