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A crucial vote is coming up later this month in the EU's move to change its copyright laws. The proposed plans included mandatory content filters and a so-called link tax to be paid by sites linking to other sites, articles 13 and 11 respectively. TorrentFreak writes about the current status of the legislation and of the deadline to fix or block the proposed EU copyright legislation is coming up quickly and time is running out to salvage the situation regarding rules which will drastically affect the Internet.
Earlier on SN
European Copyright Law Isn't Great. It Could Soon Get a Lot Worse
Censorship Machines Are Coming: It's Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout
Compromises on Copyright Maximalism are Clearly No Longer on the EU Agenda
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @08:27PM (13 children)
And the problem will go away. There will be nobody to enforce the rules.
The ISP must go!
(Score: 2) by Snow on Tuesday June 05 2018, @08:33PM (10 children)
Doh! It's all so simple!
Next you'll say that we can solve global warming by just not releasing carbon.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 05 2018, @08:41PM (1 child)
It's all about the dark mesh web net, man!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @11:12PM
Just do not be the poor bastard that happens to be next to a popular thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @08:48PM (7 children)
Bad analogy... The cause of your global warming is still debatable. The direct cause of all our internet problems can be easily traced back to the ISP. Without them the authorities are powerless.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Snow on Tuesday June 05 2018, @09:08PM
So... Everyone just becomes a Tier1 network and problem solved?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @09:52PM (5 children)
I'd say it's rather our climate change and the causes are well known and documented, at least if you trust in science.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 05 2018, @10:34PM (4 children)
Your "science" can't even figure out the right shape of Earth! lawl this ^ fool right?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday June 05 2018, @11:25PM (3 children)
I continue to find it strange how people who claim the Earth is shaped somehow differently than the scientific consensus, have this remarkable difficulty in describing what the actual shape of Earth is. It's got to have a shape, right? So what is that shape?
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday June 06 2018, @12:29AM (1 child)
It's shaped like a Microsoft Surface Hub 2, a powerful team collaboration device designed to advance the way people work together naturally.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @02:29AM
Please. Stop. Too soon.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:46PM
Roughly, spherical. There's just a lot of junk tacked on.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by MostCynical on Tuesday June 05 2018, @10:04PM (1 child)
And freeways to everyone's garage!
And a full grocery warehouse in every street!
And a dam in every backyard (water AND power!)
No need for infrastructure providers! If you van pay, you can have it all!
What, you're NOT a billionaire? You want water, power, sewerage and internet, but you see them as being somehow different?
Oh well, maybe ISPs *aren't* the problem.. maybe it is the *way* you regulate certain aspects of competition.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:09PM
we should have gardens in every yard or at least in every neighborhood.
we should have solar or nano nuke power plants in every house or neighborhood.
we should have redundant, decentralized, federated, anonymous internet.
tweaking regulation is not good enough. we need to replace the whole system of serfdom. that would mean people would have to quit being ignorant moorons though.