EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
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Re: EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
#226 March 2019, the Day the Internet Died.
Re: EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
#3Hope Brexit comes quickly
Re: EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
#4Already discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19490869
Re: EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
#5I would really like to see now all of the major companies block Europe. Youtube, twitter, facebook, google. Just a total immediate blackout. I'm an European with self defeating tendencies.
Re: EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
#626 March 2019, the Day the Internet Died.
I hope you aren't right ...
Re: EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
#7I would really like to see now all of the major companies block Europe. Youtube, twitter, facebook, google. Just a total immediate blackout. I'm an European with self defeating tendencies.
It won't happen, that market is too big. They'll just negotiate what they believe is a fair cut and move on with business.
Re: EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
#8I would really like to see now all of the major companies block Europe. Youtube, twitter, facebook, google. Just a total immediate blackout. I'm an European with self defeating tendencies.
Those major companies have just won, because the directive codified their content filtering systems as mandatory. EU just effectively made competition significantly more expensive.
Why the heck would they block the market that just made them easy monopolists?
Re: EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
#9I would really like to see now all of the major companies block Europe. Youtube, twitter, facebook, google. Just a total immediate blackout. I'm an European with self defeating tendencies.
It won't happen, that market is too big. They'll just negotiate what they believe is a fair cut and move on with business.
Yeah. And imagine how European politicians would spin this as global corporations blackmailing democracy.
Re: EU Copyright (ACTA2) directive passes – 348 votes to 274
#10I would really like to see now all of the major companies block Europe. Youtube, twitter, facebook, google. Just a total immediate blackout. I'm an European with self defeating tendencies.
Let them block the European market for a few hours or days and nothing will happen, except that they lose advertisement revenue. Let them block for months, and European competitors will emerge.
But why on Earth would they do that? And why should they?