> Don't forget, Google is worthless without the content, if everyone banned Google from scraping content tomorrow it would go bust overnight. You're making the

> Don't forget, Google is worthless without the content, if everyone banned Google from scraping content tomorrow it would go bust overnight. You're making the same point I am, but drawing the opposite conclusion. If what these news sites are producing is so valuable and google is stealing it, why do they not just ban google from scraping their site? The answer is that they were making money when they were the only way news got out into the world. Now that anyone can break news the news itself is not valuable. Google and Facebook aren't hurting these publications, the existence of the internet is.