A European parliament committee has voted in favour of the Copyright Directive, leaving tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Amazon in the lurch over publication rights.
The directive will force online publications to pay a portion of their revenues to publishers, and take on full responsibility for any copyright infringement on the internet.
As a result, any service that allows users to post text, sound, or video for public consumption must also implement an automatic filter to scan for similarities to known copyrighted works, censoring those that match.
The vote passed by the legal affairs committee is likely to be taken as the political body's official line during further EU negotiations next month, unless a new vote is forced by lawmakers appealing the decision.
Julia Reda has more details of the vote
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:58AM (3 children)
Locate your servers in the UK after Brexit, or in another nearby country not in the EU. For low latency content delivery.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @08:02AM (2 children)
There will be no servers in the UK after Brexit. They will be controlled by the NSA, and the Swedish "Assange-fucking-detection" special police force. No EU required, the Brits can be totally fucked all by themselves. Fucking Brits!
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday June 22 2018, @08:47AM (1 child)
> No EU required, the Brits can be totally fucked all by themselves. Fucking Brits!
Just to clarify, are the Brits active or passive in aforementioned buggery? Your post was ambiguous.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday June 22 2018, @07:15PM
Both. And they don't get to choose with who.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.