Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 11, 2014 @01:47AM from the boy-that-google's-a-bully dept.

An anonymous reader writes The news aggregation services offered by Google is set to be no longer available for Spain, starting December 16th, 2014. The decision of Google comes as response to new Spanish legislation that gives publishers the right to claim compensation for republishing any part of their content. This follows news of services of startup Uber being forbidden in countries like Spain as well as Germany and some city councils worldwide like Delhi, or other services like AirBnb being put under pressure to cope with local laws in other jurisdictions.

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Google needs to share by Arshuuu · 2014-12-11 02:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

google definitely needs to share, you can't just make money out other people efforts while paying nothing back, it is kind of selfish, good move on part of the spanish govt, google needs to realize that its not just google that can take on Publicis, Omnicom, WPP by swallowing their market share, there is no such thing as monopoly , you have to share your wealth, there is no other way!!!