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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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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jb on Saturday January 12 2019, @06:37AM
Not really.
If you genuinely want to do something as crazy as blocking the whole of Europe, you could always just use whois(1) to build a local db on a just-in-time basis; adding the whole AS to your black list each time an unknown remote IP address comes back as allocated by RIPE and adding the whole AS to your white list each time an unknown remote IP address comes back as allocated by any other RIR.
Network numbers often get reallocated to new ASes, but very rarely move between RIRs, so at that sort of level of (non-)granularity your local db will probably converge on stability within a couple of weeks.