European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill

Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by vageli on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:00AM (#17356030)

> Internet content delivery spans borders, by design. All this does is disadvantage the local producers and force their customer's eyeballs offshore.

Coupled with GDPR and many websites around the world shutting down or closing their doors to European users, there won't be many places to go.

The overarching trend of artificial borders on the internet is terrifying.

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by oldcynic on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:59AM (#17356578)

I don't understand trying to conflate GDPR and this copyright proposal.

GDPR is a reasonably written attempt to preserve some measure of citizen privacy (i.e. you and me). It's an extension and continuation of Data Protection that's been there 20 years. Companies coped with no ill effect.

The copyright proposal is entirely for the benefit of large media companies, and the smell of lobbyists is overpowering. (i.e. not you and me)

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by josteink on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:12PM (#17356714)

> Coupled with GDPR and many websites around the world shutting down or closing their doors to European users,

That’s hyperbole. Most websites provenly don’t.

The GDPR is reasonable. This is not.

No need to conflate them.

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