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Judgment Day Nears for EU’s ‘Piracy Filters’

posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 05 2018, @07:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-noes dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by bradley13 on Wednesday June 06 2018, @10:56AM (2 children)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @10:56AM (#689256) Homepage Journal

    Regardless of the motivation, it is pretty clearly just a money-grab. Publishers want to be in search engines, they need their articles to be widely disseminated. That said, the classic publishers are also a dying industry and they desperately want to find a way to monetize their content. The problem is: if they charge search engines and other clear fair-use instances, those services will simply stop spreading the word about the articles.

    Hence the need for government involvement: "make them publicize our content, and make them pay us money, too!".

    From what I've seen, the EU commission is at best totally clueless, and more likely simply corrupt. There's no reason they should be pushing this kind of rent-seeking legislation, unless they are either stupid or on the take.

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  • (Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:00PM

    by quietus (6328) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:00PM (#689286) Journal

    Funny then, that the campaign against the proposed EU copyright legislation is funded by the largest publishing house in Europe.

    You're being taken for a ride.

  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Thursday June 07 2018, @05:55AM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 07 2018, @05:55AM (#689737) Journal

    Those pushing for Article 13 are using mafia-like tactics to try to pressure legislators [juliareda.eu]. That alone should disqualify the proposal.

    “I know that several members of our committee have come under huge pressure to vote in favour of this particular proposal. The German CDU […] has been reportedly pressuring them […] there have been reports of threats of members not being allocated reports and parliamentary positions if, basically, they don’t do as they are told”, an MEP revealed under the cover of anonymity in another article – before it was taken offline and edited to replace that quote with an official statement by the publishers’ lobby.

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