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European Governments Approve Controversial New Copyright Law (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A controversial overhaul of Europe's copyright laws overcame a key hurdle on Wednesday as a majority of European governments signaled support for the deal. That sets the stage for a pivotal vote by the European Parliament that's expected to occur in March or April. Supporters of the legislation portray it as a benign overhaul of copyright that will strengthen anti-piracy efforts. Opponents, on the other hand, warn that its most controversial provision, known as Article 13, could force Internet platforms to adopt draconian filtering technologies. The cost to develop filtering technology could be particularly burdensome for smaller companies, critics say.
Online service providers have struggled to balance free speech and piracy for close to two decades. Faced with this difficult tradeoff, the authors of Article 13 have taken a rainbows-and-unicorns approach, promising stricter copyright enforcement, no wrongful takedowns of legitimate content, and minimal burdens on smaller technology platforms. But it seems unlikely that any law can achieve all of these objectives simultaneously. And digital-rights groups suspect that users will wind up getting burned -- both due to wrongful takedowns of legitimate content and because the burdens of mandatory filtering will make it harder to start a new online hosting service.
Online service providers have struggled to balance free speech and piracy for close to two decades. Faced with this difficult tradeoff, the authors of Article 13 have taken a rainbows-and-unicorns approach, promising stricter copyright enforcement, no wrongful takedowns of legitimate content, and minimal burdens on smaller technology platforms. But it seems unlikely that any law can achieve all of these objectives simultaneously. And digital-rights groups suspect that users will wind up getting burned -- both due to wrongful takedowns of legitimate content and because the burdens of mandatory filtering will make it harder to start a new online hosting service.
Thank goodness for the Brexit!
.. that they can turn digital files into scarce property. They hate hate hate that nature defies capitalist logic in the digital realm. Supply can now always meet demand and they want us to live in some stone age corporatism of false scarcity to extract tribute from their serfs.
1) A way to block EU access to my servers
2) A large retainer for lawyers to issue copyright takedowns for any EU access to my comments on any social media, which I own the copyright to.
3) A tax shelter for all the sweet sweet profit.
Or just fucking link to them, if you're not in an EU country.
What are they going to do, extradite you?
Don't be a pussy. This isn't even civil disobedience if you're not in their jurisdiction. Link the fuck out of them.
If the laws aren't enacted in your country, then they're not your laws to follow. Link to the EU, take off your burqa, live like a person in a sovereign nation should live.
Don't know wtf my fellow sheep are doing voting for these assholes.
This is exactly the problem. All our problems are self inflicted. But we do need a way to protect the minority from the majority that wants to fuck them.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Don't know wtf my fellow sheep are doing voting for these assholes.
Which arseholes? Or rather what's the alternative? Who should you vote for who you know will stand against a yet undisclosed issue lobbied for by corporations?
Stupidity like this directive doesn't get created in a legislative vacuum by the people you vote.
I vote pirate party all the way, but feels like I am the only one.
The pirate party has a currently sitting MEP (Germany). You're definitely not the only one. But fundamentally the problem with parties like the pirate party is that they are single issue parties made up of people with different backgrounds and opinions on other things not core to the pirate party. That will forever keep them as a minority player.