Re:Spain's 'Google tax'
by dagi3d on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:18PM
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and the point is that these publishers don't realize that all these news aggregators are sending a considerable amount of visits to them
this is a picture of an editorial celebrating that this law was passed and how they include the buttons to send the article to the aggregators: http://mnmstatic.net/cache/21/eb/thumb_medium-2223027.jpg
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There's no hypocrisy there. The law appears to be based on the idea that sending the article on social media should produce money for the article writer... obviously this would be a reason to encourage flowing the article out to social media rather than inhibiting it.