EU Passes Copyright Directive

[TGLS]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/26/tech/eu- ... index.html

It seeks to shift the responsibility for protecting the rights of artists and writers to platforms such as YouTube. Tech companies would have to prevent copyrighted materials from being uploaded, or seek licenses from the people who created them.
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Social media companies also say they lack the technology to properly filter the huge volume of content that gets uploaded each day to their sites. Instead, they will build filters that block anything suspicious.
"We have seen time and time again that the technology is not there yet to be able to decide when it is and isn't a copyright infringement," said Bosher.
"The algorithms are not able to say, 'ah, this is a parody, this is not a parody,' " she added. "That needs a human intervention."

Anyway, this is a directive not a law so it's up to the constituent states to implement it in law.

[clearspira]

Don't ask me, i'm trying to leave. Ask my Prime Minister.

[Admiral X]

Joke would be on them if companies like Google and Facebook would take their ball and leave over this. Of course, we're talking companies that worked with China and its internet wall, so that's unlikely to happen. :/

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

aw frell, this doesn't sound good

[TGLS]

Joke would be on them if companies like Google and Facebook would take their ball and leave over this. Of course, we're talking companies that worked with China and its internet wall, so that's unlikely to happen. :/

Well, China has Weibo, QQ, and others. Europe has nothing local to challenge it.