Individual votes are in: https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/copyrightvot...
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European Parliament approves copyright reform
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Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform
#262A big part of the problem is that there is no single entity that defends the citizens interest in this instance. You have the Disney's of the world heavily lobbying to pass reforms like these, but who protests against it? - Online signatures? Gets laughed out of the room. They could be fake, they don't mean anything, they are paid, etc.. - Voting? Voting cycles are too long and voting decisions cannot be made on a si…
EU Elections are coming up. Vote for the pirate faction in your country or check who voted what and only vote for those parties that voted against A13 or if there are none, parties that are vocal against A13.
Same goes for your countries own election cycle.
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#263This is a great day for creators in the EU. We are finally going to be able to upload our creations safely, in a platform that nobody will ever pay for.
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#264This will be an unpopular perspective on the matter, so you have been warned: Article 13 only affects for-profit platforms that host and share copyrighted material. These platforms are run by big corporations that turn a huge profit by way of selling your personal data, violating your privacy, and having a persuasive (addictive) design in order to glue you to the screen so they can maximize their ad revenue, dismissi…
One could even argue that this could trigger a new wave of self-hosting/publishing.
That's something I've been wishing for, yes. It would certainly be the best possible outcome, although I am not sure how the entire thing will actually unfold (I don't think anyone can be sure about it yet).
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#265Are we able to see, who voted how? I would like to have a website showing you which persons not to vote, in your location for the upcoming eu votes in may.
The information is not yet published, however Julia Reda ( https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1110514210176462850 ) is working on it. Also, I would suggest voting on a party-bases i.e. voting for Pirates in your region.
Sorry, I voted for the Pirate Party the last three times, and they still didn't get enough votes for even half a seat the last time. There's a limit to how often I'm throwing my vote away. Luckily there are a few other parties with sensible policies.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is nothing we can do, by design. The European Commission has the exclusive ability to create new laws, and they're almost totally isolated from any kind of democratic control.
That's not exactly true. Parliament can petition the Commission to legislate on something, and citizens can put forward proposal through the ECI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens'_Initiative
And the Commission can ignore both, if they feel like it.
That's a very long way to anything that resembles democratic control.
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#267This'll give the EU few more years of solid Google funding
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#268Individual votes are in: https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/copyrightvot...
Can we get votes per national-level party (e.g. Labour, Conservatives etc.)?
EDIT - at least here's how the parliament groupings voted - https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1110552457682264065
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
This also affects small online communities, who pay for their servers by running a few ads. There are a lot of these platforms.
> small online communities, who pay for their servers by running a few ads if those communities are aiming for a break even at best, would those as well be considered "for profit", though?
In the US you need to register as a non profit, have a board of directors, etc.
Even an LLC or INC that loses money is a "for profit" company. Most VC funded startups fall into this category where they lose money each year with the goal of eventually turning a profit.
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As long as their cashflow in Europe is in black, they will absolutely cater. But we'll see soon enough.
Doubt it. It's very easy to implement GDPR compliance, and A LOT of websites opted for blocking their content in Europe instead of working to make their services compliant. The requirements for being compliant with these directives are so difficult, than only major companies will have the resource to do it, and many will definitely not think it's worth the effort.
Businesses historically catered to a lot more expensive to implement laws. Personal data territorial hosting, years worth of logging for law enforcement, content filtering compliance, and it was barely on anyone's radar.
Reddit and other social networks rally users against this law however as it's contrarian to their bottom line and growth curves. It is important to pause and consider if the law (certainly promoted by large copyright holders) harms these networks, individuals, or society at large.