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Why in god's name would Google index a site if there was no benefit in it for them? The whole point of the relationship between search engines and sites that allow indexing is that it's mutually strictly beneficial (otherwise one party would pull out of the transaction since neither party is forced to remain in the relationship). I'm a little flabbergasted that it's necessary to describe how a transaction works in an HN thread, given that it's probably the single most fundamental unit of even the most basic economics. The "shade of grey" you're referring to is forcing Google to index the site and forcing them to pay to do so (in essence, mandating that a private corporation enter into a transaction against their will).

"So basically your position is binary: Either don't license your movie's streaming rights to Netflix, or accept that they're going to profit from it."

You may want to think through your statements a step or two further before throwing around accusations of ignorance.