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All true. However 2 wrongs don't make a right. Just because the mass media in France is basically an oligopoly, it changes nothing to Google doing something ill

• greatgib 5y ago
  If you look at the whole thing, it does not make any sense at all. Except the media seeing google generating a shit load of money and wanting to take a part of it. If you think about it, if the article might be interesting, you will go to the website of the media anyway. But now, most media here are really crappy and are just formatting news from AFP (french Reuter equivalent) or from gov or corp press releases without doing real journalism. And so, logically from their point of view, just showing the title steal the only worthing thing from them. And that does not entitle them to get traffic from Google, but just to receive whatever biggest amount possible from Google without doing anything. Usually, I'm complaining more about Google bad actions and its monopoly abuses. But in this specific case, I would more likely be on their side, with the impression that they are bullied by the media that are really politically powerful in France. Imagine, if all the websites referenced in hacker news were starting to ask HN to pay them for the right to list their articles... And the bad thing is that, once they will win with Google, it will create a precedent and they can legitimately start pursuing the little fishes. Think about all the corporate assholes around the world that really would like to have the right to decide who link to their website and impose some fees for that!