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I really do not understand why Google accepted this. Orange needs them far more than Google needs Orange.

They could have let Orange stew or force the French government's hands by proposing legislation that would have created a huge popular and technical uproar.

It seems to serve no purpose, other than some unknown short term motivation - which has never been a characteristic of Google - to accede.

There is no way French media companies or French government will back down now they have forced Google to draw first blood on itself. It also sets a global precedent against them and other Internet companies.