While I generally agree with you (look how VATMOSS, that was supposed to be a way to force Amazon to pay vat taxes, forced all the small sellers - without money

While I generally agree with you (look how VATMOSS, that was supposed to be a way to force Amazon to pay vat taxes, forced all the small sellers - without money to spend on implementation - on Amazon), I don't see an upside for Google. This is likely just change for Google though. They probably consider the value of showing French newspaper content to be higher than whatever the price has been set.