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Julia Reda, Member of the European Parliament representing Germany, writes about a proposed EU law which would require sites to monitor and censor posts and any other uploaded material. Leaked material shows that at least three governments are actively working to make this happen.
The governments of France, Spain and Portugal want to double down on a law proposed by the European Commission that would force all kinds of internet platforms to install a "censorship machine" to surveil all uploads and try to prevent copyright infringement. They want to add to the Commission proposal that platforms need to automatically remove media that has once been classified as infringing, regardless of the context in which it is uploaded ("staydown").
By law, every video clip of your cat that you share with an app would need to pass through filters controlled by media companies. Essentially, they would have a veto right to any upload to the internet. These filters would be unable to safeguard your rights to quote, to make parodies, and to use existing works in any other way allowed under copyright exceptions.
The examples most talked about are videos, but even comments and source code would be affected. As currently written, the proposed law would effectively ban a diverse range of sites, including SN or even Githhub. The relevancy for those outside the EU is that if the proposal goes through as is, then calls for "harmonization" would be used to spread the rules to other regions of the world.
Previously:
EU Study Finds Even Publishers Oppose the "Link Tax"
Hidden 2015 European Commission Report on Copyright Infringement
EU Council Presidency Questions Extra Copyright, but Endorses Censorship
Pirate Party MEP Says That Current EU Piracy Filtering Proposals Are Being Sabotaged
Reda Report Adopted: A Turning Point in the EU Copyright Debate
Julia Reda, the Only Pirate in the European Parliament, Weighs in on Copyright
(Score: 2) by srobert on Sunday October 29 2017, @04:29PM (4 children)
So video of your cat, Sylvester, will definitely get swatted down for Time-Warner sake.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 29 2017, @05:23PM (3 children)
Well, they will also ban it because Sylvester spoke with a lisp and that's politically incorrect to portray. In the name of inclusion, we need to have a therioth show in which the protagonist speaks with a lisp and anybody caught laughing at it goes to jail for being, uh, not diverse or inclusive or something.
No, that's not fucking funny. And since you have a history of disrespecting pronouns of our fifty-different genders, you will be sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The most hilarious part is that it's Germany again, being fucking Nazis even if it means being anti-nazis. I like your technology and work-ethic, shit-eating Krauts, but you're asking for a third ass-kickin'.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday October 29 2017, @09:14PM (2 children)
The most hillarious part is that you are unable to read. From the quote in the summary (emphasis by me):
Note which country is clearly not in that list.
And the summary also says:
Here indeed Germany is mentioned, but not as originator of the proposed law, but as the country represented by the person who informed us about it. It is quite obvious that at least this person does not support the law.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 29 2017, @09:23PM
It doesn't matter. We will kick the living shit out of you shit-eaters!
Come on, Scheisskopfs. Put up your dukes!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @05:05AM
You have been trolled.