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I work for the Pirate Party MEP in the Parliament. My understanding is that this is mostly about German (and to a lesser degree Spanish) publishers putting pressure on Google for their various interests, including that they want to be paid when Google uses snippets of their content in Google News: https://juliareda.eu/2014/11/breaking-up-google-or-just-bank...

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Curious, what is the Pirate Party's stance on this? (I have no idea how to find individual MEP votes on bills)

https://juliareda.eu/en/ is the website of the Pirate MEP, and she's quite active in her communication.

There's some mention of Green MEPs every now and then which is because she joined their coalition.

http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-digital-single-market-joint...

(and she voted against)

I think there are actually two interesting questions here since there are now many Pirate Parties in Europe. One about the general stance of pirate parties and one about the stance of the German PP specifically.

I would generally expect a pirate party to support free-of-charge publishing of snippets and linking to content on the internet as a basis for the open internet. On the other hand, I wonder whether the German Pirate Party is able to look beyond what may be construed as an interest of German publishing industry.

> On the other hand, I wonder whether the German Pirate Party is able to look beyond what may be construed as an interest of German publishing industry.

It's not actually in that industry's interest and even if in were, no, the Piratenpartei is completely opposed.

Noone is seeing any problem with defending google in one instance, and bashing them in another.

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