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by hnmcQIOoQUDv 2833 days ago
Why should Google continue to refer traffic to these sites for free without compensation?
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Euh... Google makes billions of dollars referring traffic...
As do the pages. All this has been tested before in Germany with the Leistungsschutzrecht. Even before it was struck down by the courts it was more or less not active anymore. Google just stopped sending traffic to the pages of the German publishers. It took only a few days until Axel Springer & Co. came crawling back and made a deal with Google that they are allowed to link without compensation.