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These may have been more valid criticisms in the past, but today, Google does indeed pay for both Wikipedia content and song lyric licensing:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/22/23178245/google-paying-wi...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18684211/google-song-lyri...

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So? I didn't say they don't pay.

What I said is if I copy paste things into my page, Google will kill it because it's spam. If I say "but what I'm actually paying for this content"... That's irrelevant.

I'm not saying that Google is stealing content, I'm saying they're hypocritical is applying and argument when the conclusions benefit them, but not otherwise.

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