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European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws (engadget.com)
The EU has voted on copyright reform, with members of European Parliament this time voting in favor of the extremely controversial Articles 11 and 13. The 438 to 226 vote, described as "the worst possible outcome" by some quarters, could have significant repercussions on the way we use the internet. From a report: The Copyright Directive, first proposed in 2016, is intended to bring the issue of copyright in line with the digital age. Articles 11 and 13 have caused particular controversy, with many heralding their adoption as the death of the internet. Article 11, also known as the "link tax", would require online platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay media companies to link to their content, while Article 13, the "upload filter", would force them to check all content uploaded to their sites and remove any copyrighted material. How this will affect regular internet users is still subject to debate, but it could seriously limit the variety of content available online -- and it could pretty much spell the end of memes.
Unsurprisingly, these parts of the bill have been met with opposition from digital rights groups, computer scientists, academics, platforms such as Wikipedia and even human rights groups. Supporters, however, say the consequences of the measures are being blown out of proportion, and that the provisions are merely intended to give creators and smaller outlets the opportunity to reclaim the value of their work. More details on Reuters.
Unsurprisingly, these parts of the bill have been met with opposition from digital rights groups, computer scientists, academics, platforms such as Wikipedia and even human rights groups. Supporters, however, say the consequences of the measures are being blown out of proportion, and that the provisions are merely intended to give creators and smaller outlets the opportunity to reclaim the value of their work. More details on Reuters.
Then the EU can live in their own "digital utopia world" with as much censorship, manipulation, taxes, and control over information that they want.
It's almost as if "be careful what you wish for" is pretty good advice.
Exactly. Google et al response will be "we'll pay you for links to your content, here's an invoice for putting your website on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or nth page of search results"
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Are you kidding? The copyright lobby and their insane demands started in Europe. The US managed to avoid their madness for a long time and didn't implement the Berne convention until 1989. One particularly evil aspect of the Berne convention was the removal of the requirement for copyright registration.
The EU accepted the rule that the FPV, first-person-view, transmitter of an RC aircraft, or a drone, cannot have the power more than 25 mW, while a smartphone can have the transmitting power of 1000, or even 3000 mW.
It basically destroyed the emerging UAV & FPV market and the industry in the EU countries. It made existing FPV drones unreliable and dangerous, while the FPV videolink starts to break at about 100 meters.
The content owners, or the content indexers?
Content owners like large media companies are still desperately clinging to the past.
Google and other online gatekeepers hold sway over large percentages of the audience.
I eagerly await a final smackdown for Murdoch & friends, when the reality of distributed information finally hits home. Hits home to them of course, the rest of us already know.
Google and others have no obligation to list anything. If they decide that it costs too much to link items to media websites, well... tough. The other media companies will gladly waive costs if it means their content gets listed at the top of page 1 while Murdoch & co are relegated to page 2 or 3.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
You assume that young people will do any better or that they have a "real" understanding of the internet. If you look at some of the groups of young people that are screaming the loudest, they'd seem to be the biggest censors of the internet with their demand for safe spaces and a ban on any expression that hurts their feelings. There are also a lot of young people that are going to throw in with the right-wing anti-immigration parties that are starting to spring up because they see that as more important than something going on with the internet. I don't know if those groups even have any opinion on this particular topic, but I don't think getting the younger voters involved will do anything.
In the U.S. the joke (from about two decades ago) about younger people voting was that it was the younger college voters in Minnesota that got Jesse Ventura elected. If you're not familiar with him, he's a bit of a conspiracy nut among other things. Probably an okay guy to be friends with, just not what I would consider governor material. I think the youth vote was also up in the 2016 election and we ended up with Trump, so I don't see it making a difference in this case either.
I don't know if you are trolling, human garbage or just the typical deeply ignorant useful idiot. What you fail to understand is its the internationalists that harbor the deep hate, not those right-wing nuts. They might dislike one group or anther for whatever reason but they are NOT the authoritarians this time around.
The Internationalists are! Step back and look objectively at the treatment by the major international bodies EU, UN, WTO etc of anyone who does not subscribe to their current secularist viewpoint, and anyone who believes that they might want to take care of their family and neighbors before considering themselves a world citizen. Why they will come down on them with tools of oppression that would have made the Nazi state blush. No they are not piling up the bodies yet but that is coming; rest assured. Its a major reason they are all gun grabbers. They know eventually good people will be forced into a corner defending their families or their faith and have no choice left to them but violent resistance and they want to make sure those people will lose.
These international bodies are NOT different than the empires of old; they just bamboozle folks into thinking they are. The UN isnt about international cooperation its about one world government, a post national world. The EU is the same thing. When there are no-nations to stand up to the abuses of other nations you will have a single giant empire again like Rome and it will be oppressive! People who support this stuff are fighting to end their own freedom. (Well unless you are part of the ruling class; I suppose).
Right now there is a lot of talk about voting rights and influencing elections the question you need to be asking yourself is once all this power is turned over to these international bodies will the elections matter at all? Seriously unless you are part of the POL/Money changer classes supporting international anything is aggressively stupid and against your interests.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Freedom's a bitch, ain't it? Being a European, sadly, you're losing your freedoms, such as they were, in the name of, well, what?
Only the British have a significant history of seeking and defending freedom, the Magna Carta being the first great manifestation of that. And that's an indicator of why Brexit is a thing.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Nah the Trump vote came mainly from grumpy old white people. The youth vote would have gone to Bernie Sanders, but I suspect most of those who would have voted Bernie ended up not voting at all. The ideals of socialism seem to appeal most strongly to the youth, who are still idealistic, with a strong sense of morality (as they see it).
I think that is a actually a registered Slashdot user. He goes around making these really insightful posts then ending them with an irrelevant anti-Semitic remark. I'm trying to search my post history because I know I've replied to him before. It exactly fits the pattern. I just can't seem to find the post. There is a part of me that wants to make a bot that re-posts his posts but without the last sentence. I bet it would get quite a lot of karma, and bring some of the intelligent points back into the conversation.