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Won’t this just play out the same way it did in Germany and Spain?

• ehnto 6y ago
  The only difference here is that Rupert Murdoch's media empire has a fair bit of political influence in Australia, and they are the ones behind this.
• foepys 6y ago
  For the uninitiated: Germany passed legislation that requires websites to pay a fee even to show headlines. Google said they won't pay and will pull the plug on Google News in Germany if they need to pay a single cent. The media organizations then granted an exclusion to Google News, giving Google News a competitive advantage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_publishers#Comparisons_with_other_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_...
  • Mirioron 6y ago
    To note: one company tried going without Google, saw the number of visitors drop, and went back to Google for the deal.