• 'Disastrous' EU copyright bill vote approved (Article 13)
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44546620
Luckily there'll be another chance for the EU to vote against this atrocity.
The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs voted by 15 votes to 10 to adopt Article 13 and by 13 votes to 12 to adopt Article 11. It will now go to the wider European Parliament to vote on in July. So, it's not through yet. But, still, fuck.
Fucking hell. Baffling how retarded the EU is on this issue.
I hope not. I'd rather have liberty then media
I can't believe this shit actually passed this vote, I thought the EU was better than trying to pass these shit rules.
My trust in the EU: shattered
Remember: while this is certainly already going farther than I had hoped for, Parliament still needs to vote on this.
Yeh, there's quite a few steps a law needs to go through before it's put into effect. While it's cleared more hurdles than it has any right to, it can still easily be stopped.
Don't forget who voted for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8qhhfo/whos_voting_how_for_article_13/
First it was net neutrality, now it's this. It's all down hill from here fellas
Color me not surprised, at allll
Approved by the lowest level maybe, shit certainly won't get past this
My trust in governing individuals is at an all time low so I'm expecting the worst.
What the fuck the pirate party voted for this?
But publishers, including the Independent Music Companies Association (Impala) welcomed the vote. "This is a strong and unambiguous message sent by the European Parliament," said executive chair Helen Smith. "It clarifies what the music sector has been saying for years: if you are in the business of distributing music or other creative works, you need a licence, clear and simple. It's time for the digital market to catch up with progress." fuck off
I haven't paid for music in years. Music on it's own has no monetary value anymore for most people. The music industry needs to get their shit together and start focusing more on merch, trends like vinyl, concerts, etc. Selling music is not a viable business model unless you're bandcamp.
in an ideal world, culturally significant artistic things like music are free to enjoy sadly, this is far from one
Don't be so sure about that. That kind of overconfidence is how these things slip through.
The right wing voted in favor of less freedom for more profit ? Color me surprised.
Meanwhile one of my politicians, who is gonna be voting on this, made an angry facebook post blaming (and calling us) the internet communist pirates for hacking his computer following the tons of mail asking him to vote against this I fear for the future
I already emailed my MEPs here in the UK. Sadly what I got back was mostly UKIP representatives telling me not to worry because they blanket oppose all EU motions anyway, plus a bunch of propaganda spew about how terrible the EU is for our country. So that's... good?
I keep wondering why people say brexit is a bad thing when you've got this sort of stuff as a reminder that maybe the EU isn't firing on all cylinders.
the story would be over today if it weren't for eurosceptic parties manufacturing ammunition for exactly these kinds of arguments
The UK is far from a role model.
It's bad that it passed another hurdle, but it's not law yet and people seem to immediately forget EU's pro-consumer track record as soon as someone posts about how EU doesn't like curvy bananas. The two aren't comparable, but in my opinion EU gets a bit too much flak considering how much good it's doing overall. GDPR was put into force literally weeks ago and pretty much all of it is about company accountability and protecting consumers' privacy. Not that we should rely on that track record by any means. More and more people keen on destroying the EU are being voted into the EU leadership and it's just depressing.
As a filthy uncultured american, can someone explain this graph to me?
there are handy labels when you zoom in
I pretty much view this as a good thing, it makes it all the more clear to your average joe how pointless and outdated copyright law is, and increases the incentive to use decentralised and anonymous networks which can't be regulated. Basically if you make everyone a criminal no one is going to care about following the law.
yeah can't wait to be able to just upload Witcher 3 on Steam for ez profit
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