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I don't see how this is Google's fault - we had a similar situation with the "Leistungsschutzrecht" in Germany and of course Google would be insane to pay for a
by thirdsun 12y ago
I don't see how this is Google's fault - we had a similar situation with the "Leistungsschutzrecht" in Germany and of course Google would be insane to pay for aggregating news snippets and leading readers to media outlets.
It's a silly regulation, a quick approach to re-gain lost profits for the media corporations. The fact that those companies were able to talk the government into passing this law is rather ridiculous in my opinion.
- Mahn 12y agoThat's exactly it, it's the large media companies that pressure the government into bullying Google the ones to blame for the situation we're headed.
- kolme 12y agoWhile it's true that it's not their fault, it's a shame that they've folded to the pressures of the media lobby. But I don't blame them, business is business. You can't just let the major content creators go to the competence, even if they're massive asshats.
- thirdsun 12y agoWell, at least here in Germany Google required publishers to waive their right to be paid or Google just wouldn't index their content in the news section (search wasn't affected at all). And in my mind, rightly so, a brilliant move. Of course all those publishers gave in since you obviously can't force Google to pay for content (snippets of it!) it actually doesn't need/want all that badly, while publishers on the other hand really, really wanted to be indexed. This recent development is probably more of an answer to the EU monopoly investigation, where Google tries to show that they can behave.