There's nothing concrete as news coverage yet, but this happened:
https://twitter.com/YTCreators/status/1062413559395766274
https://www.youtube.com/saveyourinternet/
I'll update if something else happens, but it seems that youtube finally realized that this is wrong.
I thought they were going to be against GDPR, this is fine.
Yeah, I am kinda okay with this. I just hope it wont convince europeans that corporate lobbying is a good idea.
Ironic considering their active suppression of independent content creators.
YouTube doing something good for once? What? Did I wake up in an alternate reality?
Youtube screwed everyone who didn't meet their criteria.
Maybe youtube are finally realising that their past actions have been slowly killing their platform
You give them way too much credit.
They're probably against it because it'll lose them money, not because it's actually good, that would be a coincidence.
They still and always have supported sociopaths, psychopaths and pedophiles.
Does it matter at the end of the day?
Companies act in their own self interest, otherwise they wouldn't exist at all. That's their entire purpose.
A company can act good and still look out for number one.
They make money from people uploading song rips and barely edited series, reaction videos, etc...
Of course they're going to oppose this one.
As a side note:
The paragraphs protecting (individual) artists against record labels and ensuring fair compensation were cut very recently, so it's even worse a bill than it was before.
Well we can't have external sovreign arbiters of what should be seen when we should be the sovereign arbiters of what should be seen
tl;dr?
Hah, you think YouTube is lenient on copyright infringement... that's cute.
Fight against bad laws to create worser laws that only help you!
Thats the way to do it.
Interesting to see how much influence company can bring when their business model is under threat.
Article 13 means online platforms are liable for copyright infringement the moment content becomes available on them.
The old farts at EU, who don't understand technology, want a magical filter that can precisely figure out the copyrights related to a video, so that content would be run through that filter before it's made available. This would eliminate the current notice-takedown procedure that everyone is familiar with.
Problem: It's impossible to build such a magic filter, computers aren't magic. This means YouTube and other platforms would have to take in uploads, and then basically manually filter through every single piece of uploaded content that they receive.
As you might guess, with 300 hours of video content being uploaded to YouTube every minute, that's not going to scale.
Thus, the only actual option left to the companies is to stop allowing content uploads at all, since Article 13 has no "safe harbor" provisions like the DMCA in the US has.
But it is. The DMCA takedowns are required by law, YT just streamlined them so they don't get swamped in work or sued into oblivion.
The site also has a ton of mechanisms where third parties can take over revenues without pulling the video offline completely, in which case YT still earns money from it.
If they were actually strict on copyright, they'd go after infringement as thoroughly as they block nazi propaganda in Germany (which is pretty much 100%).
I bet the old farts learned about Megaupload back in 2012 (It properly took them 7 years to process)
and now want to stop sites, that thrive on sharing links to pirated content.
However, this will just hurt everyone. Pirates are just going to unlisted websites, Tor or Limewire 2.0.
I do hope that Google will protest with a EU-blackout for just a day. I'm just worried about the dedicated youtubers, who are depended on YouTube.
So would the uk even be affected by this with the shitshow that is Brexit?
Youtube has stated on their twitter that until it is officially an EU member, yes.
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