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EU Parliament Committee: No, You Can't Enjoy the Music You Paid For

posted by martyb on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @07:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @07:52AM (#543602)

    I guess Facebook already has ones name, address, and banking credentials anyway. So many people out there seem so naive about guarding information which is easily used to benefit the shyster at the expense of the happy-go-lucky naive Facebook user.

    These are the very same people who go off all in a twat when their computer becomes infected with one of those cryptolocker thingies.

    Yet they seem to see no correlation that the same thing can just as easily happen to their finances?

    I really wonder about people. The amount of naivety I see is about the same of watching the cattle on the farm grow up, knowing good and well what we were gonna do with them. I am watching the elite take every thing they have away, and they hardly say a word.

    Geez. Are these people really even worth helping? Will it do any good? Or just let them go, smiling, into the world of debt slavery?