[uniformlyrandom]

To play the devil's advocate:

- Bild makes money from the online visits.

- Google makes money form the online visits as well.

- Bild actually provides content for Google to generate that revenue.

Why should not Google pay for the content (a percentage of ad revenue generated by the news.google.com would do nicely)?

[fwn]

They don't want Google to be able to buy it. They want Google to be forced to buy it.

If you took ice cream for free that doesn't give anyone the right to force you to buy it.

[Retric]

You’re forgetting Google is a global company. If they get a specific tax on content their simply going to drop the market to avoid such taxes spreading. They might even simply decide to avoid doing business in Germany entirely. Net result a worse compeditor shows up discuraging users and Bild loses even more money.

[Sven7]

Does Google News generate revenue? I