Online Content Cannot Remain Free

gamer4Life writes "Publishers from Europe are complaining that Internet search engines are making money off their copyright-protected material. 'This is unlikely to be sustainable for publishers in the longer term.', says Francisco Pinto Balsemao, head of the European Publishers Council. These comments are despite the fact that Google does not place ads on their news service. 'Search engines do not reproduce content. They help users find content by pointing to where it exists on the Web.', says Google spokesman, Steve Langdon. This comes after a French news service sued Google for at least $17.5 million."

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Re:Profit Elsewhere

[ericspinder]

But why were you expecting an extremist situation anyway?

Duh, because this is, like, Slashdot. Where any topic can become a forum for bashing the U.S. As a left leaning moderate, I find these kinda attitudes from 'foreigners' as disturbing as the attitudes of the 'red line' voters from my country.