Posted on 11/01/2014 12:08:57 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Edited on 11/01/2014 12:27:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Huh? so you think this is a good idea? The EU doesn’t “own” this information either.
This is a stunt by the PP, supposedly Spain’s Conservative party, to suck up to the EU, which is in the midst of a big meaningless stupid meeting (where the Pope is also going to suck up to them). The PP makes the GOPe look like the most radical of Tea Party groups.
It’s about time. Google makes many billions of dollars selling ads for views of content that other people created.
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OTOH, there is economic value to be listed in Google results.
Spain has elections coming up. The PP did a good job under Anzar, even though the press and the world were arrayed against it. But after all those years of Zapatero, even though they were elected to undo Zapatero’s lunacies, the PP has turned out to be even worse and less conservative than just about any US Republican you can think of, and they’re going to lose big.
Google makes their stuff accessible to the world.
All they have to do is stop including Spanish material in their searches.
Spain will either back down or fall off the (google) map.
I’m not so sure how incensed they would be at Europe. Europe was not their care.
Don’t you KNOW, Google is pure deviltry.
It’s the same trend in the US with copyrights.
So that means that if a Spanish user searches for this thread I will get some of that tax passed on to me because of this post. I'll go out to the mailbox and wait for the check.
Funny, how by protecting the owners of any intellectual property the government will likely get 100% of the profits while those they protect will get nothing. Even the mafia can't get that deal when they sell protection.
“Google should pull their servers out of Spain. ay off all the employees who work here. Screw em.”
I agree. Pull out of all google services, including gmail, gmaps and all the rest. Decimate the utility of the Spanish Internet and serve as warning to other countries.
That’s about as dumb as record companies charging radio stations to play their songs.
A platitude which is utterly meaningless. Congratulations.
All the consultants that promise a better placement on Google?
Would that evolve googleola?
“OTOH, there is economic value to be listed in Google results.”
It should be up to the owners of the copyright to decide that.
Unlikely since we don't have any corporate presence in Spain or the rest of Europe that can be hit up for tax payments. Those governments just want the money that is plentiful and easy to get from a company like Google.
This is a novel idea that the US government can use to silence opposition.
Possible. They would have to use the boil the frog method and start out with a teeny tiny tax.
It means everything, as we all will find out the hard way once technology costs us our freedom and our jobs. Because that’s where technology is taking us—and faster than anyone here would suppose.
The only chance is regulation. Europe is at least a little ahead of the curve on this than we are.
You can attempt to fight technology all you want.....you will be as successful at that as Don Quixote was at fighting windmills.
Regulating technology is nothing new.
We have speed limits on cars, we have restrictions on automatic weapons, etc.
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