EU copyright reform: the facts
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EU copyright reform: the facts
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Re: EU copyright reform: the facts
#2Holy crap on a stick. These new laws are just stupid.
I don't generally see eye to eye with libertarians (or whoever advocates for minimal interference of state), but out of touch laws like this are just the worst.
Re: EU copyright reform: the facts
#3Whether or not you agree with the copyright reforms, it is not helpful to present these opinions (e.g. 'will negatively affect...') as fact. You may as well stand outside the legislative building with a placard.
To my mind, it's impossible to take part in the debate until you've realised that your position is a point of view; that other have a different point of view; and that compromise is going to be necessary.
Re: EU copyright reform: the facts
#4In my mind, the most salient point is this one:
FACT: The proposed new copyright rules will lead to direct surveillance of users’ activities online.
This and the recent 5 eyes document to require backdoors for all technology and services are the same. The surveillance state is coming. It is being bought. You are being sold.
But don't worry, they are doing this for our own security and safety. No one need watch the watchers.
Re: EU copyright reform: the facts
#5For EU people who want to take action: call or email your Member European Parliament (MEP) and let them know that don't supper the policy (or support it?!?). You can call them via:
https://act.openmedia.org/savethelink-call
Or email by finding your MEP details on:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search.html
More info on taking action can br found here (scroll a little):
Re: EU copyright reform: the facts
#6Holy crap on a stick. These new laws are just stupid. I don't generally see eye to eye with libertarians (or whoever advocates for minimal interference of state), but out of touch laws like this are just the worst.
The EU and its member states have a penchant for crazy laws like this, GDPR, local movie quotas on services like Netflix, arresting people who train their dog to do a bellamy salute, arresting people for having potato peelers in public, and so on. I can't think of a single reason other than vacation days that I'd ever want to live there. I'm aware comparisons to 1984 are a cliche but the EU truly has been inching towards it.
Re: EU copyright reform: the facts
#7Whether or not you agree with the copyright reforms, it is not helpful to present these opinions (e.g. 'will negatively affect...') as fact. You may as well stand outside the legislative building with a placard. To my mind, it's impossible to take part in the debate until you've realised that your position is a point of view; that other have a different point of view; and that compromise is going to be necessary.
How is it helpful for you to present your opinion (about their opinions as facts not being helpful) as a fact? :)
Re: EU copyright reform: the facts
#8"Only a handful of the largest tech companies have the technical and financial means to operate the sprawling filtering systems that this law demands."
The smaller platforms often use under the hood Amazon AWS, Google Cloud or equivalent.
Probably the copyright verification is going to be added at that level, and hopefully will be transparent to the platforms built on top of those cloud services.
So hopefully, this will not impact smaller SaaS companies as much as it might look.
Re: EU copyright reform: the facts
#9Whether or not you agree with the copyright reforms, it is not helpful to present these opinions (e.g. 'will negatively affect...') as fact. You may as well stand outside the legislative building with a placard. To my mind, it's impossible to take part in the debate until you've realised that your position is a point of view; that other have a different point of view; and that compromise is going to be necessary.
It's quite hard to talk about a compromise when there's zero benefit in accepting the new law to begin with. Remember how effective the SOPA/ACTA protests were, the only reason these succeded was because no one was interested in a compromise.
Re: EU copyright reform: the facts
#10Holy crap on a stick. These new laws are just stupid. I don't generally see eye to eye with libertarians (or whoever advocates for minimal interference of state), but out of touch laws like this are just the worst.
The EU and its member states have a penchant for crazy laws like this, GDPR, local movie quotas on services like Netflix, arresting people who train their dog to do a bellamy salute, arresting people for having potato peelers in public, and so on. I can't think of a single reason other than vacation days that I'd ever want to live there. I'm aware comparisons to 1984 are a cliche but the EU truly has been inching tow…
GDPR is not a crazy law and it's pretty much the opposite of what you'd expect in a '1984' state.