Best i can tell, copyright is a topic that allows up and comping politicians to virtue signal and/or for the economic powers that be to test the allegiance of rising political stars.
It is also a dry subject that most people don't care about until they get a sour letter from some lawyer because Timmy discovered bittorrent.
Re:EU copyright law proposal rejected
by fauigerzigerk on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:08AM
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It is a dry subject, but make no mistake, this is not just a pet subject of individual MPs/MEPs.
The "value gap" argument used to justify the EU copyright directive is right there in the 2017 Labour manifesto: https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/labour-mani...
The conservatives have used similar but more general language as well.
The Labour MEP on the legal affairs committee voted in favor of the copyright directive. The conservative member abstained.