Don't these content producers realize that there's probably more than half their traffic coming from Google? Google helps people find their stuff. How is that bad?
Google is making money from people's content. The people making the content might be making some money, too, but Google is making much more. The content producers are all using....Google Adsense, to try and turn Google traffic into money. And Google has relentlessly "smart-priced" its adsense payouts down into oblivion. So Google's scooping up content to power its index, sending people to these sites, where they click on ads that pay Google an advantageous share of the wealth. Sounds like they're making money off people's content.