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European parliament set to call for break-up of Google in antitrust case (theguardian.com)
4 points by jonnyscholes on Nov 22, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



That is just pointless. Remember the Leistungsschutzrecht where german newspapers got a law passed which forced Google to pay royalties for Google News excerpts?

Google just delisted them entirely, the newspapers saw a massive traffic drop and decided to allow Google to use their excerpts for free.

In case this gets through, Google will simply close shop in the EU, wait for the population to cry up, and after the EP/EC have realized their mistake, come back again.




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