Article 13 approved by European Parliament by 438 votes to 226
wot da fok m8
so where are we protesting?
So memes are illegal now?
The article doesn't have much details about its implementation, and when is it actually signed into law?
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved
They point to existing laws and newly-introduced amendments that will block the worst excesses of this legislation (like, for example, a law that excuses parodies and memes from copyright claims).
It's more that sites will have to filter users uploading copyrighted content, users themselves won't actually get fucked by this but the big sites will. This however means that sites like Youtube and such that gets billions of uploads a day won't have a reason to operate anymore since it is impossible to screen all those uploads and thus it's no longer profitable.
From the article:
"It’s very important to understand that today’s vote does not make Article 13 or the overall European Copyright Directive law. This is about agreeing the European Parliament’s approved
text for the directive, which then goes to the European Commission and its member states, with the reported goal of becoming final, passed European legislation sometime in 2019.
There is thus still potential for the text to change; for the requirements to evolve; for more lobbying both behind the scenes and very publicly on the internet. Today is certainly a victory
for music rightsholders within that wider context, but it’s not the end of the story yet."
It hasn't quite passed yet. The final vote is in 2019. Given that it'd essentially mean death for the internet as we know it today, people need to campaign harder to shoot it down.
this basically means that it's been passed on to the next bunch of people to argue about it, and then i believe EU representatives and members of each country's government discuss it and can potentially ask to have it rewritten to make it more viable for them. it won't actually be passed until at least 2019
The thing about the vote today though, is that the majority of MEP's have shown that they're willing to vote 'yes' on a very flawed and dangerous piece of law, that could very well lead to a
censored internet, and the restriction of free flow of information. I highly doubt that they will vote any different next year.
Unless the public is mobilized to put the pressure on. Like we did with SOPA years ago in the States.
This shouldn't surprise anyone, the EU isn't known to guard the freedom of the people they are supposed to represent. I can only be glad the UK will not have to deal with this absolute travesty for much longer, though the rest of us are stuck to deal with this shit.
Assuming the nanny state UK doesn't enact even harsher surveillance and tighter internet once they're out.
lmao watch American websites increasingly block european IP addresses
UK vote for this ruling.
The 5th July voting should give an indication of countries valuing freedom and those that don't. God Bless Sweden.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113148/d7dafdce-4172-4888-b76a-d29f07300d6e/image.png
Already happened with GDPR, shouldn't come as a surprise when it happens again. Except maybe for those who praise the EU, come hell and high water. But maybe thats what they want.
Somone I know suggested for laws like this that basically have no consideration for how the internet actually works, the best policy a company like Google could take is to cut off the EU completely. Just overnight kill all of their services in the EU until the law is repealed. Because if one day everyone has Gmail and Android and Google search and Youtube and then the next day those are all gone, you'd see the EU Parliament set on fire. They'd be in the biggest rush to get rid of the law you've ever seen. And the only justification Google would need is, "This law has made it unfeasible for us to continue operating within the EU, and as such we are ending all business there." That gives them all the cause they need to do that.
I guarantee you that's what Youtube, Facebook, and the like are going to do. No way in hell they're going to pay every single corporate media owner (especially youtube, cause Google is already losing money on it). Plus vpns exist in Europe too, so it's not like they're going to lose every single person living in the EU.
Amazing how I thought at one point that Americans were getting the short end of the stick regarding internet freedom. As bad as the net neutrality abolishment has been, it can easily be reversed if/when the democrats regain control of the presidency. And even at its worst, it still pales in comparison to this dogshit that the EU just passed.
They'll have a separate service for Europeans called EUTube
Mail in your videos to be manually reviewed by a team of copyright attorneys before a systems engineer under the watch of an attorney uploads it to the server and assigns it to your account.
It will consist solely of let's-play videos of Forklift Simulator by Angela Merkel.
BETTER SAVE UP YOUR MEMES NOW HAHAHHAHAHAA
What you're describing is "America's Funniest Home Videos"
I'm not sure if I'm entirely comfortable with the idea that a single company has the power to make a union of 28 member states bow down to its will.
Ohh it is a terrifying thought but wholly within their grasp and not always unjustified. Like in this case, probably not so wrong on the whole to tell the EU parliament to eat a bag of dicks. But yeah, we crossed in to that part of the Cyberpunk world a while ago, where companies have enough importance in daily life that they can in theory leverage their power like a super power to force nations to simply surrender to them.
There is one thing I want to say to the MP's that accepted this: Fuck off.
The EU is the most consumer oriented (inter)governmental entity on the entire planet with GDPR being the most notable legislation as far as I'm concerned.
Remember the Equifax debacle in the US? No consequences. Pulling that sort of thing nowadays in the EU would hurt any company.
For example, British Airways was hacked recently, and the fact they were hacked was disclosed to consumers pretty quickly, and that doesn't keep them out of hot water yet.
Other notable examples include helping globalise microusb as standard charger (though they weren't the first) and forcing EU mobile providers to treat EU as a single market, meaning you now get (for now not all, but only some) data that you can use anywhere in the EU, or call from any EU country to any EU country at the same cost as domestic calls.
I'll never claim the EU is perfect or that it can't be dramatically improved, but having 27 other countries breathing down your neck and vice versa is, I believe, a good way to find some common ground on the most important issues, especially things like human rights.
Here are the votes by each EU Member State:
https://i.nofate.me/xoATXuDG0k27kglb.png
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