TKJunkMail
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|  EU wants to cripple Google News service
Google must be growing fast enough to threaten the EU's online businesses desire for internet profits. They are now only #2 to Microsoft in EU hatred of US businesses.
Google makes ad dollars from links to EU news sources. Those news sources are now trying to use copyright infringement as an excuse to kill off Google's news service or force Google to pay to list links to their news stories.
This attempt to force companies not to link without payment would kill the very thing that makes the web work at all. Let's hope that Google fights this tooth and nail. They may have to spend some of those huge profits to preserve the right to link without payment.
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geekamongus
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| "The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have built up over the years," said Francisco Pinto Balsemao, the head of the European Publishers Council That is the sum of it. Another example of big business needing to change and adapt to the modern world of the Internet. Same deal with the RIAA, MPAA, etc etc etc.
As a web developer, I know that the golden rule is "If you don't want it stolen, copied or misused, don't put it on the Internet".
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insomniac84
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said by TKJunkMail  :Google makes ad dollars from links to EU news sources. Those news sources are now trying to use copyright infringement as an excuse to kill off Google's news service or force Google to pay to list links to their news stories. Google does not have ads on their news page, so they are not directly making money from google news. Now since people are finding news through google, they are probably searching with google and that's how google is getting paid. The sad part is that these news sites linked to from google probably have ads on them and they are therefore getting paid when people go to their site. And the only reason people go to their sites is because it was listed on google news. I myself have never heard of a lot of sites on google news before, so in a way it's giving exposure to local papers around the world to the world. |
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Kearnstd
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yep but like Napster and the RIAA, the content owners here deploy the lawyers first and consider the future later. by which time its too late.
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