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Canada to keep pressure on Facebook to pay for news, Trudeau says (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

While I agree it was a greedy and ignorant move, the difference is that your website is being advertised for free every time it shows up on Google searches, while news articles are stolen wholesale without anything more than a link to the original that nobody is going to bother checking because they got the entire value of product that people care about.

It's the difference between a movie trailer being shared on streaming services vs the movie itself being uploaded everywhere. One's advertising, the other's piracy.