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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: 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.

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  • (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?