Google paid 60 million for reddits data. They will pay the price they are asked from the 5 big publishing houses and they will happily do it because it gives them a monopoly.
Googles revenue in 2022 was 280 billion. They can easily afford this and aren’t close to “barely stomaching” anything.
60 million is how much data costs from users that have no say over their data. The cost will be astronomically higher if it has to be negotiated with actual authors and publishers. The publishers will in no way allow bulk usage, just look at how they treat libraries for an example of this. It will be cost per usage in some manner, not a one time fee, or even a yearly fee.
Google paid 60 million for reddits data. They will pay the price they are asked from the 5 big publishing houses and they will happily do it because it gives them a monopoly.
Googles revenue in 2022 was 280 billion. They can easily afford this and aren’t close to “barely stomaching” anything.
Wishful thinking imo.
60 million is how much data costs from users that have no say over their data. The cost will be astronomically higher if it has to be negotiated with actual authors and publishers. The publishers will in no way allow bulk usage, just look at how they treat libraries for an example of this. It will be cost per usage in some manner, not a one time fee, or even a yearly fee.