European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
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Re: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
#2This bill pretty much demands that YouTube Content ID like systems are introduced across the web. With the wording, it's better for the site to delete more content on false positives than risk false negatives. All in the name of mighty copyright.
Side effects of these false/negative averse copyright takedown systems can be easily seen on YouTube: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17338700
Re: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
#3https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-307-26993-5
> According to Columbia professor and policy advocate Wu (Who Controls the Internet), the great information empires of the 20th century have followed a clear and distinctive pattern: after the chaos that follows a major technological innovation, a corporate power intervenes and centralizes control of the new medium—the “master switch.”
> Wu chronicles the turning points of the century’s information landscape: those decisive moments when a medium opens or closes, from the development of radio to the Internet revolution, where centralizing control could have devastating consequences. To Wu, subjecting the information economy to the traditional methods of dealing with concentrations of industrial power is an unacceptable control of our most essential resource.
> He advocates “not a regulatory approach but rather a constitutional approach” that would enforce distance between the major functions in the information economy—those who develop information, those who own the network infrastructure on which it travels, and those who control the venues of access—and keep corporate and governmental power in check. By fighting vertical integration, a “Separations Principle” would remove the temptations and vulnerabilities to which such entities are prone. Wu’s engaging narrative and remarkable historical detail make this a compelling and galvanizing cry for sanity—and necessary deregulation—in the information age.
Re: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
#4This bill reminds me of the 'Melancholy Elephants'[0] story by Spider Robinson, about the dangers of unchecked copyright.
Re: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
#5IIRC, EU citizens helped defeat ACTA by taking to the streets and influencing parliament.
Would I be mistaken in believing it can be done again, even without the additional anti-US/trade treaty attitudes that helped against ACTA?
Re: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
#6It's really not very clear what the outcome of this is going to be although it doesn't look good. So "internet platforms" are going to filter all the content we post? Seeing as this isn't going to work properly what is the point of setting it down as a law? Someone's going to end up in court and only then are we going to know exactly how bad it is.
Re: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
#7> They voted to approve the controversial Article 13, which critics warn could put an end to memes, remixes and other user-generated content.
This won’t put an end to memes. It might encourage innovation around decentralization, though. It won’t end the internet, but given all of the stuff like this happening recently, it might be time for the internet to evolve. The technologies have been around for a while as a curiosity, and now there might be the market need.
Re: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
#8This bill pretty much demands that YouTube Content ID like systems are introduced across the web. With the wording, it's better for the site to delete more content on false positives than risk false negatives. All in the name of mighty copyright. Side effects of these false/negative averse copyright takedown systems can be easily seen on YouTube: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17338700
An update to the original article you linked says that the issue was not with Content ID, but is "related to its updated partner agreements."
Re: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
#9If I may play the devil's advocate for a moment here, isn't this a boon for decentralizing media? If third-party publishers like YouTube are crippled, perhaps there's more room for self-hosting your content, enabling you to build your brand on your own terms rather than YouTube's? Perhaps it's time to stop outsourcing the publication of our content to third-parties and host it ourselves, especially now that granularly-scaling cloud servers are an option?
But I'm not very familiar with this bill aside from the fact everyone hates it, so someone can probably point out why I'm wrong.
Re: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
#10This is what happens when those in control don't understand, know or care about the things they regulate.
So I guess this is bad.
--goes and reads article--
> Article 11, requiring online platforms to pay publishers a fee if they link to their news content, was also approved.
What the fucking FUCK?
Pay to send companies actual traffic? Pay to be allowed to use the basic building-block of the world wide web on the world wide web?
Just how is it possible to be so out of touch with how things work, and still be allowed to pass regulation?
I'm honestly not able to come up with an analogy which sufficiently illustrates just how backwards this whole thing is.