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Germany is leading a growing European movement to let newspaper publishers charge internet search engines for displaying links to their articles — a move market-leader Google warns could cause an internet news blackout.

The so-called ancillary copyright bill — to be debated by the Bundestag for the first time at the end of November — will give newspaper and magazine publishers the right to stop search engines and news aggregators from linking to their web pages if Google and its rivals refuse to pay royalties for their use.

Günter Krings, a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party, calls the initiative the “little brother” of copyright law. “Just like that which protects the rights of a songwriter or music company, ancillary copyright levels the playing field between print publishers and search engines and aggregators,” he said.

The idea of forcing internet sites to share some of the revenue they earn from selling ad space alongside listings of newspaper and magazine articles is so alluring that France is considering similar rules — and Italy could also follow.

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Google Warns on German Copyright Bill

Germany is leading a growing European movement to let newspaper publishers charge internet search engines for displaying links to their articles — a move market-leader Google warns could cause an internet news blackout, the Financial Times reports.
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It's an interesting thing when you realize that some of these internet companies have more sway than a country's system of government. Tell 'em how it is, Google.
 
I dont think this move is a good idea. Those people are just crazy.
 
I don't like the idea, but I don't like the idea of a corporation holding power over a country either. A corporation should never be able to stand up to a country, in my opinion.

In the end, I don't like how this is going, really. :p
 
In the end, I can't imagine it being much worse off than we are here in the States - Canada might have a better government, I don't know many of its policies at all, but at least there'd be someone at the forefront that was actually gettin' shit done instead of all the dick-grabbin' goin' on in our capital. We haven't had a decent person heading our country in 70 odd years, not since FDR, long before my lifetime, so the dude that runs Google would be higher on my list for presidential candidates than either of these two turds.
 
Sim said:
I don't like the idea, but I don't like the idea of a corporation holding power over a country either.
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I wouldn't exactly say the companies are holding power over the country.. the web companies are being given a choice by the newspapers, and it's the government who is upset with their choice

although I will miss the google cache of webpages.. it's often a very good backup for when sites go down (like lifehacker/gizmodo last week)
 
LOL when designing a Page, one has the option of making that site not searchable. Just exclude all robots :D
Stupid Germans and their stupid Sites. They should sue themselves for being stupid.
 
Aren't you from Germany? lol

Or my memory might be messed up :p

> so the dude that runs Google would be higher on my list for presidential candidates than either of these two turds.

Maybe he's good at bringing money for his company, but that doesn't mean he's good at governing a country, and its people...
 
Sim said:
Maybe he's good at bringing money for his company, but that doesn't mean he's good at governing a country, and its people...
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Right, but my point is that the alternatives really aren't any better, at least in my opinion.
 
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