Wow. Once in 8 years. Quite a point you have there /s Every single respectable search engines (which can be targets of lawsuits, and are thus targeted by this

Wow. Once in 8 years. Quite a point you have there /s Every single respectable search engines (which can be targets of lawsuits, and are thus targeted by this law) has proper identification. If a content owner worries so much that their data might be available somewhere (search engine, aggregator, ...) they did not approve, they should whitelist rather than blacklist. They can (and should) also whitelist/blacklist at the referrer level. But a law actually lets them have it both ways; They only sue those that they dislike, after the fact, letting others keep linking. At least that's the thinking - in practice, if such a law is written (which has happened before), Google, Facebook and others will drop those sources that don't give the info for free, those sources will see their numbers drop 90% over a month, and come back begging to be reindexed. I find it quite infuriating that laws are being put into place for problems which already have a very simple and precise technical solution.