Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed EU Copyright Overhaul

Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E... by sandworm101 on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:11PM (#17295396)

That's the argument for why health codes should be optional, that customers can choose whether or nor to eat in dirty restaurants and the market will settle the issue. Nope. I don't want to play that game. I want everyone to obey a mandatory set of minimum rules.

It's about information imbalance. Without mandatory minimums it is too easy for businesses to hide faults from consumers. I don't want websites to use business judgment when deciding whether to protect consumer privacy. I want them to fear massive retaliatory fines should they not do the bare minimum necessary to protect the public from harm.

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Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E... by frockington on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:17PM (#17295452)

"I want them to fear massive retaliatory fines " is exactly why America/Asia is currently dominating Europe in technology. No start up and innovation can happen in such an outwardly hostile business environment

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Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E... by yifanl on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:40PM (#17295732)

No startup or innovation should happen at the cost of harming the userbase.

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Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E... by kodablah on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:57PM (#17296696)

You can take the good with the bad or have neither in some idealistic world where only one exists. You can even limit the bad (oftentimes limiting the good as well), but you shouldn't say in absolute terms that innovation with some bad should never occur even if there is significant good.

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Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E... by yasp on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:51PM (#17295884)

Ultimately it comes down to whether a user should be free to choose whether to use such a service. Ostensibly the user is receiving some benefit despite this "harm". If the harm outweighed the benefit there would be no user.

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