This law is pointless ,
it was tried in germany and spain,
result,google news closed down.
google news provide a service ,
free , no ads.
if a newspaper wants to get paid for links or snippets,
it should expect that most websites will opt out.
The result is less traffic to newspaper websites,
see google reader, google plus etc
no one can force google to provide a service,
even if it has millions of users.
If it does, not fit in google,s plans the service
will disappear .
IT WOULD Be disastrous if google actually paid for a snippet,
IT,S , a slipperly slope,
next thing is google will have to pay to link
to Any european news or list them in the search results.
Say i,m looking for news on brexit,
i should not have to go to 30 different websites,
going to google news is a much better option.
The european newspaper companys remind me of of
music companys in the 90,s ,
they were facing declining sales of cds, ,
music piracy,
they launched apps or various mediocre incompatible music service,s
with drm some of which only worked on phone,s or pc,s
or various devices, and used various ,
It required steve jobs to appear and apple to invent the ipod and itunes ,
a simple service ,buy music, buy albums, ,1 song for 99 cents ,all music in mp3 format.
Then streaming came along and the music industry
is actually making more money every year as people
get used to paying subscriptions for apple music, spotify etc
The News industry needs a tech genius
to come along who knows how the web works ,
what users want, what they will pay for ,
Maybe have a website,
New,s .fr,
news,germany.com,
news,spain.com etc
Where any news paper or blog can post links to news storys or any article.
WIth ads if they want ,
Any news paper with a website can post on the
website, it would be run by a semi independent board,
so its not under the control of just one company .
The european newspaper companys remind me of of music companys in the 90,s , they were facing declining sales of cds, , music piracy, they launched apps or various mediocre incompatible music service,s with drm some of which only worked on phone,s or pc,s or various devices, and used various , It required steve jobs to appear and apple to invent the ipod and itunes , a simple service ,buy music, buy albums, ,1 song for 99 cents ,all music in mp3 format. Then streaming came along and the music industry is actually making more money every year as people get used to paying subscriptions for apple music, spotify etc The News industry needs a tech genius to come along who knows how the web works , what users want, what they will pay for , Maybe have a website, New,s .fr, news,germany.com, news,spain.com etc Where any news paper or blog can post links to news storys or any article. WIth ads if they want , Any news paper with a website can post on the website, it would be run by a semi independent board, so its not under the control of just one company .