> it sounded like they would explicitly forbid this sort of arrangement between publishers and aggregators
and than, should they force google to pay instead of cutting these publishers off?
in no way would that be legal.
you can't force somebody to pay something, by forcing them to obey.
> well google in the end can just shutdown google news.
That's the expected (and fair) outcome. To be fair, why should a multinational be entitled to profit from unauthirized access and distribution of third-party content while the content creators are left with the bill of creating it?
