Top French newspapers sue X for unpaid use of their content
Le Monde, Le Figaro and others accuse X of not paying for content distribution and seek legal redress.
Sounds like a link tax, not actually reproducing any written content. I really dislike link taxes, they're gonna break the internet at some point if they don't see pushback.
Now when I open a Google map link my wife sent from messenger, messenger opens a copy of maps inside messenger that doesn't work half the time. Is that excluded from link tax?
When musks puts unskippable ads to go to content instead of reading it almost in its entirety right on the site (with an ad besides it), is that also link tax?
Enshitification of links is what will break the internet. Musk would be the first to sue for this.
I'm in Canada, and I sent a cbc.ca news link to someone in instagram chat. It showed a preview of the post with a picture and summary, but when the link was clicked it went to a page that said:
People in Canada can't view this content.
Content from news publications can't be viewed in Canada in response to Canadian government legislation.
on one hand fuck Twitter, but on the other... Link previews never should be considered copyright infringement.
How do you know it's about link previews?
The arcticle mentions that it's about redistributing the content without payment.
Microsoft, Google and Meta got in trouble as well in the past and got a fine or agreed to paid up.
Make a paywall and see your support drop. Their fuck up for fucking up their html tags
The bigger evil
Do they want to get France kicked out of NATO?
People are going full retard on this X thing