Google admiting its IP kleptomania addiction? first step to recovery?

Scotland's Sunday Herald reports that : "INTERNET SEARCH engine Google is understood to have reached deals with several large UK news groups over carrying their content on Google News."

This news is on the heels of Google settling with Agence Presse and the Associated Press in separate settlements over IP theft.

• Three data points!
• Seems like an emerging pattern of tacit admission of guilt to rampant IP Kleptomania.   

The real question is:

• Has Google made the first step to recovery from it's IP kleptomania by admiting it has an addiction problem?
• Probably not.
• Most everyone has heard that to truly recover from an addiction, like Google's pathological theft of everyone's intellectual property, one has to be able to publicly admit a problem exists and is hurting others.
• Unfortunately, Google seems to still be in denial.
• Where's the public mea culpa?
• Sneaking back room settlements/bribes to make a problem go away does not inspire any trust that the stealing will stop.
• Where's the settlement with:
• Viacom for its YouTube thefts?
• With the studios for aiding and abetting illegal downloading of pirated movies?
• Publishers and authors for copying their works without compensation?
• For trademark owners who have to pay only Google for keyword extortion so competitor's can't buy competitor's trademarks to send traffic to their site?

Come clean Google.