What a meme. Maybe they can just cut up the meme in chunks of 128x128 and display that instead. Its not a full image but a lot of tiny ones
How do countries like Germany handle it when someone meets the letter of the law but not the spirit of it?
Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
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#52there's a bizarre trend in Germany in the last few months for legistlating completely unneccesary things. This is a great example. Additionally today they announced that while profits on stock trading (specifically derivatives) can be taxed fully, losses can only be accounted for upto 10.000€ Berlin is trying to freeze rents for the next 5 years and make it possible to retroactively lower rents to the level of 2013.…
> Berlin is trying to freeze rents for the next 5 years and make it possible to retroactively lower rents to the level of 2013.
Just a note, because that can be misinterpreted very easily: that's something from the local Berlin government (Bundesland), not at the federal level.
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#53The EU is a nightmare of over regulation. No wonder the U.K. is leaving. They can’t just leave people well enough alone. Imgur has recently started displaying a GDPR cookie notice modal over the entire page on their image only URLs. I feel like I can’t escape the EU’s ruination of the Internet and I have never stepped foot in the bloc.
I strongly disagree. There might be a tendency to over-legislate in some areas (after all, there is now an exposed central authority that can be lobbied by special interest groups) but on the whole, the EU has been a strong positive influence on the continent of Europe and Britain is facing a serious self-inflicted wound as a result of Brexit. I say this as somebody who has dual citizenship in both a EU country (Ital…
The EU has a huge problem of people who have absolutely no idea what they're voting for. The cookie law was a very obvious example of that. The EU parliament is a mix of politicians who vote for what they want and ones who very obviously vote for whatever their party's or their corporate connections want. The moment any kind of technology is involved, the first group doesn't know what they want and so the second group can out-vote the crap out of them.
So yes, they have done a lot of good, but only in fields they understand. In fields they don't, however, they are a much too powerful weapon in the hands of (effectively) the highest bidder.
Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is good, of course. I am curious: while a typical user of imgur would clearly be non-commercial, would imgur itself be at risk for hosting the material? Or does Germany have a “safe harbour”-like concept for platforms that host user content?
imgur is clearly a commercial image hosting platform. There wouldn't be any ads nor payment systems if it would be non-commercial
That is why I asked about imgur in particular.
Safe harbour, y/n?
Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#55German copyright law is already overly draconian and holds the country back.
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#56Link is a 404 (and the imgur 404 page breaks the back button!)
Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#57The EU is a nightmare of over regulation. No wonder the U.K. is leaving. They can’t just leave people well enough alone. Imgur has recently started displaying a GDPR cookie notice modal over the entire page on their image only URLs. I feel like I can’t escape the EU’s ruination of the Internet and I have never stepped foot in the bloc.
The hope behind GDPR, as with the earlier "cookie law" was that businesses would respond by improving their revenue models and data practices. Instead businesses have responded by making the UX shit for their users whilst claiming they had to do it to follow the law.
While the UX is definitely shit, GDPR has definitely improved privacy practices within the EU.
Re: Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
#58there's a bizarre trend in Germany in the last few months for legistlating completely unneccesary things. This is a great example. Additionally today they announced that while profits on stock trading (specifically derivatives) can be taxed fully, losses can only be accounted for upto 10.000€ Berlin is trying to freeze rents for the next 5 years and make it possible to retroactively lower rents to the level of 2013.…
Compared to the US, Germany is more regulation heavy in general. Many of those regulations seem fine or even great, there are definitely ones that weird me out a bit as an American living here though, like legally enforced quiet hours on Sunday, days where it's illegal to dance, and really just the large amount of government-religion interaction.
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#59Device pixels (resolution) or viewport pixels (like in CSS)? I mean OS manufacturers could just change the way viewport pixels are calculated in their viewport rendering, which makes the law redundant. And relying on device resolution doesn't make any sense for modern devices with hidpi displays.
I'm guessing they are only thinking of raster images, like excerpts of photos or videos.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Commercial... memes?
Well, commercial use of memes, like, say a company liek Reddit or Imgur that profites from the use of memes (let's not go into their revenue or business model in detail now). So in reality ALL memes are commercial (unless you host yourself, I would guess).
Maybe this will help Mastodon and other FOSS social networks to become popular in Germany.