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 ...
Yup. This is one of the major failures of the internet IMO. One of the things that I was excited about way back when the internet first came into the public consciousness was it's absolutely distributed nature. Anyone could serve information from their own home if they wanted to. Of course, early on, it was more difficult because of the issues surrounding dial-up lines and the ephemeral nature of those types of connections.
The bigger issue though, when we started getting more 'hard' connections to the net is that ISPs were absolutely opposed to such things. I had huge issues when I set up private mail and web servers because ISPs tended to block the needed ports. There were ways around such things, but they were a serious pain in the arse, in that you normally needed to use alternate ports to get around their stupidity, so folks had to know that your server was running on port 8080 instead of the default http/https ports.
I eventually got around that by hosting the services I wanted on CoLo'd servers, but there are other downsides to that. It is this reluctance on the part of ISPs that gives services like Fakebook and others such power, because in order to put stiff out there, you pretty much have to use their services, with all the restrictions that this entails. It is largely the intransigence of ISPs that has kept a more distributed content sharing model from coming about.
Much of the evil that we now see in the big 'social' monopolies is rooted in the fact that it is much more difficult than it should be for your average Joe to post stuff on the internet. (I'm not going to go into the security considerations that arise when you make local content available - that's a whole nothing rant)
You would think EUrabian politicians would be reluctant to cut their lifelines. Last time EUrope was invaded, we saved their butts.. now they want to sacrifice ours for theirs, again? When freedom of speech is lost or curtailed like this, can totalitarian rule be far behind?
Thanks Lazamataz. In the US, laws are only enforced against conservative sites.
This should be called The Internet Dark Age Decree.
Thanks ... was just curious about it is all.
Sorry I missed this. Glad I could help, you are absolutely welcome. Thanks for the reply!
I checked it out but no one around me has computers (well, extremely few of them do) and although I checked it out and read what I could on it, I was left with several questions and couldn’t seem to find the answers.
Today, when I have a quiet hour I’ll go back over it with the intent to install it. (I hate Goober and Microslop.)
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Before you do that... Please allow me to PM you about some very important precautions you would want to have in place first.
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I had to read the article to make sure it was as dumb as I thought it was. It was.
Any link back to content that even has a headline can be taxed. Only individual words can be used.
The effect will be, content in the EU won’t be shared.
You realize, links themselves, are public domain, merely network addresses, which are public knowledge.
The law must be voted upon by individual countries and then the EU parliment in 2019. Give reason a chance!
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