Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by Natanael_L on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:11AM
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Presumably anybody who runs a server / node would be liable
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by greglindahl on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:37PM
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You can look up the legal actions related to Usenet to see an example of US State Attorneys General banding together to attack a distributed system because a few people were posting bad stuff on it.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by betterunix2 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:40AM
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"What about distributed systems without central control?"
The copyright industry and their bought-and-paid-for politicians have repeatedly demonstrated that they have no mental model for such forms of distribution. Have you forgotten the panic that ensued fifteen years ago, when the music industry was suing middle schoolers?
(The irony is that the very same platforms these industry lobbyists are whining about only became popular because they killed P2P via the courts.)
I'm curious how this is supposed to work.