Simple. Probably search engines will not allow links to venues where they have to pay. Those who seek payment will simply lose their viewers.
Probably FR will not allow links to paid sites. (When we go to those sites now, via link, they demand either payment or subscription to read the rest of the article.)
Enough free stuff will be available that the impact to FR will most likely be negligible.
It’s odd, Walter Lippmann in his 1921 book “Public Opinion’ addressed this issue, that people expected their news for free.
How long will Spain hold out if Google decides to blackball all of the sites covered by this edict? If no one searching for news ever goes to a paid Spanish site and their revenue drops by 90%, they’ll be paying Google to link to them again.
Crazy. Site operators/owners spend a great deal of time trying to attract search engines, not drive them away.
There’s Free Republic, then the rest of the internet.
Spanish ideas of fair use differ from US ideas, so it might not even happen.