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Off-Topic => All That's Left => Topic started by: Bastard Mami on December 16, 2014, 01:23:58 am

Title: spain shuts down google
Post by: Bastard Mami on December 16, 2014, 01:23:58 am
I did not know about these knews, shame for our spanish members.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/spanish-publishers-move-to-halt-google-news-closure/

good job spain, you had 5 jobs and you just lost one:

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Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: SupremeShark on December 16, 2014, 03:10:23 am
Wow, that sucks. How are they going to google what happened to google?
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: Kyoudou Senna on December 16, 2014, 06:02:50 am
Well, they still have Yahoo.

Still... that's a step backwards for Spain.
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: S.D. on December 16, 2014, 06:42:54 am
They're shutting down Google News though.
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: Flowrellik on December 16, 2014, 07:04:31 am
S.D.'s got a point. So far its just the News portion, not Google entirely.
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: XGargoyle on December 16, 2014, 07:54:34 pm
Short story:

- Association of Editors of Spanish Dailies (AEDE) lobbies against Google News because Google spreads "their" content through Google.
- Spanish Government follows suit and introduced a law forcing Google to pay the Spanish publishers for every news snippet that is displayed in Google News service in Spain. Failure to do that payment incurs in a $750K fine
- Google says FU to AEDE and Spanish authorities and shuts down Google News.
- AEDE and Spanish news publishers realize that after shutting down Google News, they will lose about 80% of visitors to their own websites, with the subsequent revenue loss from advertising
- AEDE then lobbies the Spanish Government to force Google not to shut down their service...

And this, my friends, is how Spain wants to be a model country in the 21st century...
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: Bastard Mami on December 16, 2014, 08:04:19 pm
thanks for the explanation, I did not know about the first two points in that level of detail.

I wonder how does the aede want to force google not to shutdown.
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: Dead or Alive Fan on December 16, 2014, 08:52:23 pm
Shit this kinds of situations make me wonder and hoping that our government won't do the same or take a similar action in the Internet services  :blank:
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: Daeron on December 16, 2014, 08:55:52 pm
XG could have not explained it better.
Im losing more faith in my country with each day.
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: Kyoudou Senna on December 16, 2014, 10:45:41 pm
Dead or Alive Fan said, December 16, 2014, 08:52:23 pm
Shit this kinds of situations make me wonder and hoping that our government won't do the same or take a similar action in the Internet services  :blank:

Won't do.

Government loses more if they would ever do that.
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: DNZRX768 on December 16, 2014, 10:49:45 pm
Wait, so they made a law forcing Google to pay an editors' organization a fee else face a massive fine, and then they are now trying to force Google to not back out without canceling the original law that is causing all of this?

Am I correct in this understanding? Because that is rather stupid and smells like extortion.
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: Bastard Mami on December 16, 2014, 10:56:26 pm
yeah, that's about right ; for some reason I assumed the publishers wanted the govt. to back down on th new laws because it sounded too stupid otherwise but too stupid is the reality. I re-read it and loled at the "google is not being neutral" part, how do they expect google to be neutral if this law is directly workign against it.
Title: Re: spain shuts down google
Post by: Cybaster on December 16, 2014, 11:31:21 pm
Bastard Mami said, December 16, 2014, 08:04:19 pm
I wonder how does the aede want to force google not to shutdown.
By cancelling the law AND giving Google 1 billion Euros per year ! :deal:
That would teach them LOL