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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: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday June 22 2018, @01:13PM
This is just what Lawrence Lessig was complaining about, that through corruption, idiotic copyright bills that are opposed by over 80% of the public, are massively unfair, and unworkable and unenforceable with anything close to evenhandedness, are enacted into law anyway. This will be just another stick in the selective enforcement basket.
I could hope that it's the final straw that leads to a massive backlash, but no. Piracy has been underground for decades, and will merely stay underground.
Instead, what often happens in the US is that lawmakers pass some stupid law as a sop to their donors and supporters, knowing full well that it is unconstitutional and will be shot down the first time it is challenged in court. In fact, I shouldn't be surprised if they count on that happening. Allows them to tell their donors, "well, we tried, it's your fault you didn't write a better law". And the voters get treated to a blamefest starring the judges and courts, and the lawyers of the ACLU, as the evildoers who wrecked their moral crusade. See that all the time with anti-porn and anti-abortion legislation.