The two most noticeable effects of the GDPR on average consumers so far seem to be a dramatic increase in unwanted messages from just about every organisations they've ever communicated with and the loss of access to various web sites based outside the EU. The intent may have been noble, but the execution was awful, to the point where the GDPR now seems to be widely regarded in non-techie circles with the same contempt as the "cookie" law that results in all of those annoying messages on web sites.

It looks as though the proposed copyright changes are more of the same, horrible for smaller businesses and potentially resulting in the EU being actively cut out of even more Internet services because compliance is too onerous. Let's hope they do a better job of fixing it or forget the whole thing this time around.