Without links to the actual proposal this sounds like a propaganda piece.
A Copyright Vote That Could Change the EU’s Internet
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#13Dunno what else is in the document, but the thing I'm looking forward to is the single digital market.
I'm frankly pissed that a ton of services are unavailable outside the few European posterboy countries.
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#14Dunno what else is in the document, but the thing I'm looking forward to is the single digital market. I'm frankly pissed that a ton of services are unavailable outside the few European posterboy countries.
Could you electorate what services are missing? The only thing I noticed is that the catalogue of streaming services is smaller in some European countries but I don’t think a "single digital market" would help much. The single digital market is oriented towards lowering trade barriers and having unified regulations instead of splitting local monopolies such as media companies and phone companies (which would help Netflix and amazon)
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#15Very bad reform. Among the other things, it makes any site directly responsible for every copyright violation of its users. For a change, this is as bad for big and small companies. Not even Facebook can policy all the posts of their users for words, pictures, sounds and videos. FB won't get a takedown notice, it could be sued directly.
Facebook will have a lobby that carves out an exception for itself while simultaneously shutting down any threat to its monopoly through this legislation.
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#16I'm sorry, but an article like this should contain quotes or at least links to the actual text under discussion. Like this, it's only an opinion piece.
Yes, not the first time for this style from Mozilla regarding copyright.
Makes it hard to swallow their opinion as credible, when so obviously biased and non factual.
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#17Very bad reform. Among the other things, it makes any site directly responsible for every copyright violation of its users. For a change, this is as bad for big and small companies. Not even Facebook can policy all the posts of their users for words, pictures, sounds and videos. FB won't get a takedown notice, it could be sued directly.
Facebook will have a lobby that carves out an exception for itself while simultaneously shutting down any threat to its monopoly through this legislation.
In the EU, maybe not.
This may be a signal that the internet has become way too centralized.
The irony of the centralization of a decentralized platform is suddenly enforcement of regulations like these become feasible. The nuclear-war proof internet is suddenly vulnerable to people sitting behind desks or whatever the hell they do in Europe.
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#18Very bad reform. Among the other things, it makes any site directly responsible for every copyright violation of its users. For a change, this is as bad for big and small companies. Not even Facebook can policy all the posts of their users for words, pictures, sounds and videos. FB won't get a takedown notice, it could be sued directly.
Reminds me of what I've heard of German law, regarding third-party content like website comments :
http://germanitlaw.com/liability-for-third-party-internet-co...
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#19Another good summary[0], written by a member of the Pirate Party.
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#20Dunno what else is in the document, but the thing I'm looking forward to is the single digital market. I'm frankly pissed that a ton of services are unavailable outside the few European posterboy countries.
I don't know if it will work they way you want. I thought instead of making a service available to everyone in the EU it ensured that if you sign up in one EU country you get the same access in all others.
So - if I sign up for Netflix in the UK I can still access the same library in Poland. However this does not mean someone that signs up in Poland gets access to the same catalogue as me. It just means that if they come to the UK with their Polish account they can still access the Polish library (not the stuff only available in the UK one).
I could be wrong about this, I'm recalling something I read quite a while ago but I'm pretty sure people were disappointed because how I've stated is how it works and not how most people assume.
So while you may get a service some of the other countries have that you don't, you may not get the exact same service.