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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by servs on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:17AM (#17967726)
> Much of YouTube content is (perfectly legal) remixes, responses, or criticisms of other YouTube content that embeds part of the referenced video in their own video.

That actually isn't legal in many countries and is e.g. why regional wikipedia sites don't show movie posters.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by MoBattah on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:10PM (#17970874)
This is just plain stupidity.

Sometimes I feel like the whole world is ruined by ignorant people in power. As for the Internet, it is exclusively being ruined by ignorant actors in positions of state power. All the while, armies of good people make the Internet better every day.

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