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The European Parliament has voted against a controversial proposed new copyright law that critics warned could imperil a free and open internet. The Copyright Directive, which contained the particularly concerning Article 13, was rejected by 318 votes to 278, with 31 abstentions. The EU's proposed copyright reforms will now be debated again in September, giving policymakers more time to discuss and refine the crucial dossier.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales told the BBC he hoped that the music industry could find a way to compromise before the September debate.
Don't think about filtering everything everyone uploads to the internet. Instead, he added, they should look to renegotiating deals with platforms such as YouTube to get "fairer remuneration".
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 06 2018, @01:00PM (1 child)
The year isn't over, though.
If you flip a quarter several times a day, for a year, you'll have runs of heads, and runs of tails. I suppose we could do the math, but you might get twenty heads in a row. But, over time it averages out to 50% unless you have a cheat.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @02:28PM
The problem is, as always, bad laws like this only need to pass once. It can be rejected hundreds of thousands of times. This is why a LOT of shitty laws in the US (especially) get passed. It'll get introduced, it gets leaked, there's a wide publicity made about it on the internet (while official news sources completely ignore it) and it (possibly) gets struck down - to be reviewed again at a later date. That gets repeated again. Then again. Then again. Each time the opposition to it becomes more and more exhausted at having to be enraged over the bad law to be. And finally it gets snuck under the radar and passed into law. Normally even worse, somehow, than the original law proposial.
Note that this law is not struck down. It's on hold until SEPTEMBER when it will be reviewed again. You know, while everyone is busy with the start of school, or perhaps over the long labour day weekend.