>Because now a startup has less than 3 years to add this content filtering, which provided as a service or not, is going to cost €€€.
Not really? This isn't a flat 'you need to pay 10k a yr regardless of your size' imposition. Proportionality is important.
The articles, as written, are interesting because they already mention a ton of the balancing considerations. All of those are completely absent in these conversations.
Do you know why that's an issue? Because sometime soon people are going to start getting bullshit copyright trolling demand letters, and all this furor about how the internet is dead is going to convince them to close up shop or cave instead of saying 'nah, serve me your originating documents, this is a bogus claim'.
And that's how the internet will die.
>Do you think Spotify would be able to grow if it was created on March 27 2019 instead of 2008?
If the competitive landscape was the same? Yes. In fact, Spotify's arc is exactly what this law is attempting to encourage. As they grew, they became a quasi licensing clearinghouse instead of another Napster or Limewire. That's the entire point.
>how is this a good thing?
Because you don't end up with 1 compliance service, and you can litigate against the compliance service if they're inappropriately killing your content creation business. As it stands now, if you try to fight YouTube or the content delivery pipeline itself on the basis of their filters, you die. That's not necessarily the case if there's a healthy competitive filter ecosystem. Whether or not we get to that point is another question, though.