[indymike]

This is where you start to sympathize with the news people in Canada who want google to pay for links. If google just summarizes at scale, interdicts the traffic and revenue, where's the incentive to create content?

This is a failure mode for the information economy.

[monsieurgaufre]

I do agree with you.

Google's behavior in regard to informations reminds me a lot of the "torrent leeches" of the past: siphon everything you can, give nothing back, ..., profit. But at a huge scale with an impact on society far more than "a few more bytes on a personal hard drive".

[px43]

If your only incentive for creating content is harvesting attention and eyeballs, then the internet is better off without your content.

[monsieurgaufre]

With that way of thinking, you exclude almost every content, ever.

Most people do not produce content to be left unread.

[indymike]

I'm not sure that is the case: TV and radio use that model and are/were valuable.

[nicbou]

I just like the fruits of my labour to be attributed to me, not to a large corporation.