I know exact definition of dumping involves international trade and all that. I used this word not literally, but because it's the closest term to what's happening.
Good example on newspapers: what is happening to them (they are dying) is one consequence of the web-ads model propagated by Google. Are you better off now with them dying and thousands of people being laid off, while Google's pockets get fatter and fatter?
Free newspapers don't offer quite the same content as subscriptions. However if they started reprinting materials from subscription-based ones and offering the same material for free, along with their ads, they should probably be restricted from this - for copyright violation. This example is much closer to what's happening with Google. And this is also the reason why some newspapers and authors don't want to be on Google.
This is not true. Newspapers are dying because the marginal cost of distributing the content is almost zero. There is no other good way to make money off of news content besides advertising. And note that newspapers were already making a significant portion of their revenue from advertising. The failings of the newspaper business model have almost nothing to do with Google.
Good example on newspapers: what is happening to them (they are dying) is one consequence of the web-ads model propagated by Google. Are you better off now with them dying and thousands of people being laid off, while Google's pockets get fatter and fatter?
Free newspapers don't offer quite the same content as subscriptions. However if they started reprinting materials from subscription-based ones and offering the same material for free, along with their ads, they should probably be restricted from this - for copyright violation. This example is much closer to what's happening with Google. And this is also the reason why some newspapers and authors don't want to be on Google.