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They sure can, that’s what robots.txt is for. They want google to continue to index them, and to be paid for that. They have 0 leverage to pull that off, so they’re using the legislature to accomplish it.
I think this is going a bit in circles so I assume I'm not being clear, I'll try and be more precise. There's nothing in the legislation that forces google to index them. You are saying that companies can: 1. Already stop google indexing the content for commercial use 2. Already negotiate with google for payment for commercial use of the content What is the additional thing that this is forcing, in your view?
Oh, right. Now I understand.
The law circumvented the negotiation in 2 and said that google must pay for the content by law.