Re:European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
by Tomte on Saturday April 14, 2018 @12:25AM
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Ah, the old banana myth. How the EU forced banana producers to only produce or sell bananas with the right curvature.
Only... that‘s not true. The EU defined quality classes for all kinds of products. And in the case of bananas these included curvature.
Producers could still sell whatever curved bananas they liked. At whatever price they liked. They just couldn‘t claim it conformed to this specific quality class.
Because free trade includes regulations like that. Traders want to establish a baseline what‘s acceptable to most of them and not specify every product detail in every shipment.
Re:European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
by TeMPOraL on Saturday April 14, 2018 @12:35AM
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Yup. The usual bullshit spun by British tabloids, that somehow then gets reprinted as facts on continental Europe. There were plenty of other similar cases regarding classification and quality classes of seafood, water, juices, etc.
People seem to be so desperate to believe the government is this big, incompetent force of evil that they'll uncritically accept any story that confirms that belief.
Re:European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
by vixen99 on Saturday April 14, 2018 @02:16AM
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It was such a competent piece of legislation that it was dropped by the EU when commonsense finally penetrated the minds of the 'we're paid to dream up laws so let's get on with it' secretive team in Brussels.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/2453204/Be...
Re:European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse
by EvilTerran on Saturday April 14, 2018 @06:01AM
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Also, the EU didn't invent the idea of quality classes for produce - they already existed in most EU countries, because they are genuinely useful (primarily for wholesale buyers, who benefit from knowing more exactly what they'll get). The class definitions just varied from one country to the next, which was a massive pain for producers wanting to sell internationally - so the idea was that every EU country would agree on a common set of classes, making things simpler for everyone involved.
The same EU that regulated the shape of cucumbers? They regulated shapes of bananas. The EU also launched a kettle and toaster crackdown after the Brexit vote. [1] -- but hid those plans until after the vote.
This is also the EU that hid plans to ban high powered kettles and toasters until after the Brexit vote so they wouldn't fuel the Leave campaign. So the EU says, "Let's keep this unpopular stuff a secret so we don't piss off the British and cause the vote to swing to Leave."
The same EU that banned effective, powerful vacuum cleaners because of climate change? [2] The EU that would have people living in straw huts if it meant a 0.001% decline in CO2?
This manipulative, vindictive EU that hid their intentions from the British public because they knew those intentions would be unpopular?
To assume "good faith" on the part of the EU for any reason, is, itself, an act of faith and more likely, an act of delusion.
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/eu-to-launch-ket... [2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/1104712...