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posted by fyngyrz on Monday April 09 2018, @03:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-code-is-my-music dept.

Julia Reda (a Member of the European Parliament from Germany) writes in her bog about upcoming censorship legislation in the European Union and a call to action for those most affected, specifically the Free Software community.

The starting point for this legislation was a fight between big corporations, the music industry and YouTube, over money. The music industry complained that they receive less each time one of their music videos is played on a video platform like YouTube than they do when their tracks are listened to on subscription services like Spotify, calling the difference the "value gap". They started a successful lobbying effort: The upload filter law is primarily intended to give them a bargaining chip to demand more money from Google in negotiations. Meanwhile, all other platforms are caught in the middle of that fight, including code sharing communities.

The lobbying has engrained in many legislators' minds the false idea that platforms which host uploads for profit are necessarily exploiting creators.

The fight affects both sides of the Atlantic because once bad rules are enacted on either side, it is not uncommon for calls for "harmonization" to come from the other.

Earlier on SN:
Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors
EU Parliament's Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate
European Commission Hides Copyright Evidence Again


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by The Vocal Minority on Monday April 09 2018, @04:36AM (16 children)

    by The Vocal Minority (2765) on Monday April 09 2018, @04:36AM (#664194) Journal

    The Contributor Covenant, from my understanding, is an attempt by Social Warrior Bullies to impose their will on the free software community and has mainly been in issue with github hosted projects. When you talk about "Loudest Assholes" this would, I think, be generally taken to mean Stallman. Linus etc. who I don't believe support any of that sort of nonsense. Any other examples?

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  • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @04:48AM (15 children)

    Yes, we have a few crabby old bastards like them and myself who are unwilling to put up with that sort of nonsense. We're not winning though. Every project they shove their CoCs into is a defeat for free speech. Look into the history of Ruby or the Rust community. Or look back at this story [soylentnews.org].

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 09 2018, @04:59AM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday April 09 2018, @04:59AM (#664203) Journal

      Well then, think of it as a live test of your unspoken hypotheses then :) if you're correct, these projects will eventually crumble under their own idiocy (clone and fork their shit now, just to be safe...). This is that liberty stuff in action, isn't it? They are at liberty to take the kind of action that will eventually result in a repeat of the Gnome disaster if they want.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @05:37AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @05:37AM (#664216)

        People that didn't agree forked some projects, like MATE, but there is a limit of what can be done. We would need also to fork toolkits, libs, whole organizations... and specially be able to push back. It's a huge task, even more so if projects are fattened and twisted instead of kept simple and well documented (= forkable and maintenable with low resources) as a power grab.

        They kept important parts, no end of PR (or coorporate support... Linux Foundation is a joke with no community voice but GPL infringers), and played hardball instead of cooperating, because that is what they don't want, an even field based in merits and not weight/money. In some cases the method, if true FOSS, should have been "someone forks, demostrates the new thing is worth, and then the old part merges back the new (or gets replaced completly)" but they did the opposite.

        Let's not forget systemd, kdbus or the newest "secure boot and kernel lock down must come as a whole" (IIRC FreeBSD had lockdown features over 15 years ago, before EUFI was created, see security(7) [freebsd.org], look for "system immutable") that get pushed by some people that should know better about FOSS spirit, yet they play the coorporate game without shame.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @05:56AM

        Indeed but that example cost me a perfectly good DE. I feel a little bit of bitching is warranted.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by The Vocal Minority on Monday April 09 2018, @05:10AM (8 children)

      by The Vocal Minority (2765) on Monday April 09 2018, @05:10AM (#664209) Journal

      OK thanks for providing some context. Agree to some extent, I don't think I would want to be involved in a CoC project as these sorts things in my experience are simply weapons for those who like to play politics and as such would not like it to become the norm.

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @06:01AM (7 children)

        Here's the draft one I wrote up earlier today [github.com] for our rehash repository. I forget what it was that annoyed me into doing so but I'm quite amused with the results.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Monday April 09 2018, @11:21AM

          by pTamok (3042) on Monday April 09 2018, @11:21AM (#664359)

          That's not dissimilar in spirit to this: Github:NCoC [github.com]

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @04:20PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @04:20PM (#664527)

          Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:

          * Writing good code.
          * Knowing how to use git.
          * Using tabs for indentation instead of spaces.
          * Having a sense of humor or at least thick skin.

          Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

          * Using spaces instead of tabs for indentation.
          * Not letting people know on IRC when you are monkeying with dev.
          * Using emacs.
          * Bitching about other people on the team.

          Only insensitive clods use tabs instead of spaces! Next you'll start putting modelines all over the place forcing us to set shiftwidth to 4! :P

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @04:51PM

            Only insensitive clods use tabs instead of spaces!

            Well, yeah... I thought it was a given that anyone who could make code so ancient you'd expect to find it chiseled into stone tablets work is going to be an insensitive clod.

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            My rights don't end where your fear begins.
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @05:51PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @05:51PM (#664564)

            All good with me, including tabs.

            BUT, I learned emacs in the late 1970s (first piece of software that I was introduced to) and it's a bit too late for me to switch. Met rms through friends in Cambridge MA about the same time. Not long after I used Mince (Z-80 & CP/M - Mince is not complete emacs) to write a million character book.

        • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday April 09 2018, @05:06PM (2 children)

          by PiMuNu (3823) on Monday April 09 2018, @05:06PM (#664546)

          You use tabs instead of spaces? Why would anyone do that?

    • (Score: 3, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Monday April 09 2018, @08:36AM (1 child)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Monday April 09 2018, @08:36AM (#664294) Journal

      a few crabby old bastards like them and myself who are unwilling to put up with that sort of nonsense

      Crabby old bastards? Is that what you neo-nazi racist misygynist youths are calling yourselves these days? Seriously, Buzztard, it is time for you to get a clue, and realize that spouting shit is not free speech, does not resemble free speech, and has no protection as free speech. Do I need to repeat myself? Or shall I refer you to Ethanol_fueled? Hmmm?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @01:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @01:44PM (#664402)

      As I've been saying 'Wake up and stop sucking on CoCs.' :)