Reply to post: As an Aussie, I hate this proposed legislation

We'd rather go down in Down Under, says Google: Search biz threatens to quit Australia if forced to pay for news

Hazmoid

As an Aussie, I hate this proposed legislation

Given that most of the Murdoch press is hidden behind paywalls, and all I am seeing on Google news is news headlines, I can't see that this should be a thing.

Actually as a newspaper, I would be more worried that we would lose revenue as we would not have Google pushing people to our websites.

Tried explaining this to the wife last night and got told that "Google is making a bucket load of money by showing other people's work". I obviously explained to her that the news press make money by showing ads on their site, which is where most of the headlines point to anyway.

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