Say they get their cartel, and negotiate a link tax of a penny per link or whatever. How does that play out?
Will Google and Facebook drop news altogether? How much would that harm them? Do they just do a deal with Reuters and AP?
Say they drop news altogether. Does that just boost the popularity of aggregators like reddit with less than a billion monthly active users? Does it really change anything for the newspapers?
A fee for linking is a stupid idea. Sites pay for backlinks, not the other way around. Because they can then run their own ads and make money. Were I google, I would just blacklist these sites and they would die. Sites wouldn't have much recourse; good luck suing on antitrust grounds in such a situation.
Will Google and Facebook drop news altogether? How much would that harm them? Do they just do a deal with Reuters and AP?
Say they drop news altogether. Does that just boost the popularity of aggregators like reddit with less than a billion monthly active users? Does it really change anything for the newspapers?