In germany we have a legal equivalent of a warning letter with associated cost. There's a whole shady business practice around it, i've been a victim of such a thing twice. Google "Abmahnung".
What you are hearing is a thousand shady german lawyers spring into gear.
"The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results. Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams...
[A]t Google's scale, it means millions of wrong answers every hour"
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
