Posted on 09/12/2018 5:10:05 PM PDT by Lazamataz
On Sept. 12, European Parliament voted for the Copyright Directive. This updating of online copyright tries to make certain media companies and publishers are paid for their work when shared on Facebook or YouTube and aggregated by such sites as Google News.
Articles 11 and 13 of this law has been harshly criticized both by internet experts and companies. Article 11 grants publications copyright over any online content sharing. In practice, this means sites could charge services like Hacker News and Reddit for aggregating their stories. This is being called a link tax.
Article 13 requires content sharing sites to deploy "effective content recognition" technology to filter out copyright-protected content. This requires any content-sharing site to scan any shared videos, music, images, etc., for copyright violations.
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
No, the EU does not get to levy taxes on American citizens for merely exercising their first amendment rights in America. Now, they might try to amend international treaties to allow it, but doubt Trump or the American citizens will go for it. There will be no EU tax on American citizens. They might try some fancy international copyright shenanigans or tariffs maybe, but that would also require amending treaties. Obama and the globalist democrats would go for it in a UN minute, but President Trump will lead the nation in the defense of our constitution and national sovereignty. Foreign governments will not nullify our first amendment. I can see Trump pulling out of both NATO and the UN and any other world government bodies that try to interfere with our liberty! And treaties ripped to shreds! You want our constitutional rights? Come and take them!
Love ya bro. You have the spirit I need to hear. I’d follow you anywhere.
There are a few security risks but no more than what we have now with this net. Run it in a Linux virtual machine with a VPN and “no script” turned on in the TOR browser and you are good to go.
I’m a little bit worried.
For example, does the German publishing house Der Spiegel have a legal presence in the US? What about the UK Daily Mail or the Guardian? The French concern AFP?
If they have a legal presence, say copyrights here, couldn’t they sue here?
They could do this regardless of this proposed EU law, but would they turn to a American legal recourse once they sewed things up in Totalitarian Land?
That percentage is not remotely possible.
”We've been working on methods to improve our calculations, but with our current methodology, we estimate that about 30,000 hidden services announce themselves to the Tor network every day, using about 5 terabytes of data daily,” Kadianakis wrote. “We also found that hidden service traffic is about 3.4 percent of total Tor traffic, which means that, at least according to our early calculations, 96.6 percent of Tor traffic is *not* hidden services.”
Jim, yes the EU has the resources to pursue shaking down money to prop up their socialist failing states.
1. The USA and EU countries are mutial Copyright treaty members, such as the Berne published works treaty:
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf
2. EU - US Copyright violations have been prosecuted under current treaty agreements.
https://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/CopyrightBasics/penalties.html
Copyright Infringement Penalties
Copyright infringement is the act of violating any of a copyright owner’s exclusive rights granted by the federal Copyright Act. (and bound by international copyright treaties, as well)
There are three elements that must be in place in order for the infringement to occur.
The copyright holder must have a valid copyright.
The person who is allegedly infringing must have access to the copyrighted work.
The duplication of the copyrighted work must be outside the exceptions.
The legal penalties for copyright infringement are:
Infringer pays the actual dollar amount of damages and profits.
The law provides a range from $200 to $150,000 for each work infringed.
Infringer pays for all attorneys fees and court costs.
The Court can issue an injunction to stop the infringing acts.
The Court can impound the illegal works.
The infringer can go to jail.
Yeah, that’s grossly wrong.
Copyright is not a tax. And there is a fair use exemption in the law.
Well, this just in before the internet censor door closes.
FU EU & all your UNelected & UN elected LOSERS !
If it’s not indexed it is the deep web. I was wrong though... Only 4% is indexed not 10%. I was being generous. Every estimate you find will say the same thing. Seriously... It’s huge and we actually use just a small part of it that is indexed by search engines.
Oh I see, you somehow mistook what I said... I said nothing about “hidden services” at all, that is a different category altogether. I was talking about the deep web as a whole. Everything that is not indexed.
I didn’t say anything about “hidden services”, different topic. I was referring to the whole of the deepweb which is everything that is not indexed. It is estimated that only 4% is currently actually indexed by Google, Bing, Etc.
Something interesting is that the internet we use now is only about 10% of the web. Tor is the balance.”
Genius, you are saying that 90% of the internet is what TOR is accessing. You are full of it. The dark web is extremely small in comparison and of the dark web, less than 5% represents what TOR is used to access.
The deep web is not accessible by TOR any more than normal routes.
The article you posted blows your argument out of the water. Get a clue before you talk.
Extraterritoriality.
Good luck collecting taxes on Americans posting on the internet in America, Yurps.
The EU just went live with the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. If any EU citizen is harmed (according to the regulation) they can have a fine of up to 4% of the total revenue of the company in total, not just EU revenue. I’m sure this will effect how much business is in the EU but in the US the data model is totally in violation of the GDPR.
It is a very odd regulation.
DK
The Dark Web is also as simple as websites that do not link to Google’s system and can’t be found on a Google search
Thanks for the explanation. I’ve always wondered exactly what it was but I’m retired and haven’t kept up with the world of electronics/interwebs/languages. My main source of information in those fields passed away 17 years ago so it seems that’s the year the information highway ended and where my brain began to get less and less “food for thought.”
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Actually you are right and I stand corrected... I used the wrong terminology in that without realizing it. I used “TOR network” when I meant to use “deep web”. But the TOR network and dark web is where the links to the rest of the unindexed deep web can be found listed. Thank you for taking your courteous time to correct me. Not at all a minor infraction with no real significance, This mistake was a hanging offense.
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