A new Copyright Directive is being drafted for Europe. Within that process the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) has agreed to an amendment that would greatly reduce citizens' rights in regards to online material and even digital material in general. The "snippet tax" aka "link tax" would require licenses for even the tiniest quotations of published material as well as mandating upload filters. Either of these would effectively ban sites like SoylentNews from Europe, but scholarly publishing would suffer as badly.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Snotnose on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:36AM (2 children)
Outside of buying the CD, basically "buying" now means "renting" at the "buying" price.
Fuck that shit, Pirate Bay here I come!
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by epitaxial on Sunday July 23 2017, @07:26AM
Why do you think Apple switched to wireless headphones? Now you can have a DRM flag in the protocol.
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Sunday July 23 2017, @03:04PM
Or just buy the CDs?
I've been buying them at markets, charity shops and car boot sales for years now. There has been a surge in CDs available for sale in the last few years, especially once fools started just using online shops and streaming services.
I have bought so many CDs lately that I am thinking of building a CD ripping robot to convert them all for my music player
Not to mention, if people reject this stupidity and start buying CDs again as a big F-you to the music industry, they will have to rethink their strategy, or continue producing CDs.