Duh? Why would google have to participate? If the journals don't want people reading online, why do they put content up in the first place? Then they can always

Duh? Why would google have to participate? If the journals don't want people reading online, why do they put content up in the first place? Then they can always ask google to no longer link to their content if that's the problem.. No, the real issue is that they don't know what to do, or are afraid to take risks and do the right thing so they try to take the money where it is. And I'm not being hypocritical, I sincerely do not see why it would be fair for google to pay the newspaper: seems to me like it's a win-win, where google gets ad-money, and the newspapers get traffic. Now if the newspapers are not capable of transforming traffic into money, that's another issue, and google isn't responsible for that..