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European Union Article 13 is Almost Final

posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @04:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the triskaidekaphobia? dept.

canopic jug writes:

MEP [Member of European Parliament] Julia Reda provides an update on the EU Copyright Directive which is in the final drafting stages. The whole text will be finalized January 21st but the infamous Article 13 is already set and Internet platforms will be made directly liable for any copyright infringements their users commit, should the final text be voted in.

What remains in the drafting stage in regards to Article 13 is to decide exactly which lengths will platforms need to go to and just how much they will need to restrict our ability to post and share content online in order to avoid or limit their liability.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:45PM (#785167)

    We need an open source database of IP address assignment.

    To be going on with...I find this lot moderately useful

    https://www.countryipblocks.net/country_selection.php [countryipblocks.net]

    there are others out there as well..

    I'm going to block all EU IP addresses from my website if this passes.

    I'm a bit rusty on the old config files, but ISTR you could block access based on tlds, so what's wrong with adding as many
    Deny from tld_you_want_to_block for all the eu tlds you want to zap?