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Should Google Be Forced To Pay For News?
Barence writes "The Guardian Media group is asking the British government to investigate Google News and other aggregators, claiming they reap the benefit of content from news sites without contributing anything towards their costs. The Guardian claims the old argument that 'search engines and aggregators provide players like guardian.co.uk with traffic in return for the use of our content' doesn't hold water any more, and that it's 'heavily skewed' in Google's favour. It wants the government to explore new models that 'require fair acknowledgement of the value that our content creates, both on our own site (through advertising) and "at the edges" in the world of search and aggregation.'"
Months ago, I gave up trolling thru all the Fox propaganda that now feature prominently on Google News. I don't know if Google is in on it or just too stupid to realize, but Fox 'News' has perfected the art of getting their incendiary, lie-filled headlines to pop up on Google News like dandelions in an subprime front yard.
Copyright infringement is not theft.
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