Google takes hard line, refuses to pay French news sites despite new law
arstechnica.com
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> This isn't what advocates of the law had in mind.
Yeah... I think a bunch of us here expected exactly this outcome. Warned about it, even.
> Their goal wasn't to make European news sites less prominent in search results—it was to convince Google to start paying licensing fees. But Google is signaling that it has no intention of doing that.
Good for Google.
> every ad on Google is clearly marked
Personally, the few times I use a browser without an ad blocker lately I find myself confused about what is an ad until I go hunting for text to indicate it. I click links in YouTube for channels I don’t follow thinking I may have followed them at some point too, since they appear in my sub feed. This “clearly marked” point is not true in any but the most technical sense
It's almost as if it has gone rouge.
I can listen to this music freely on Youtube (or torrenting) from the same band. But I think that in the hospital application of this music, it is probably written somewhere that the hospital needs to pay the band a licensing fee for "commercial use".