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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by jonathanstrange on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:09AM (#17968230)
Both strategies have been tried and are unlikely to hold up in court.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by sparkzilla on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:16AM (#17968305)
A bit challenging to sue a project when it has no owners and no jurisdiction.

PS: Jonathan Strange: Great books and even better TV.

Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by mosselman on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:28AM (#17968452)
Nor customers/users.

The problem is that 'normal' people don't know how to use most distributed/encrypted/stick-it-to-the-man products, nor do they care.

Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by sparkzilla on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:49AM (#17968710)
'Normal' people already use distributed content: Google and Facebook's content is held in data servers all across the planet. The next stage is to distribute the governance of that content, which similarly, most users won't be aware of.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by kakarot on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:01PM (#17972630)
This is just a pedantic disagreement about what "distributed" means. It's all about context.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by adrianN on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:34PM (#17972334)
Somebody has to host the content. You can sue those people. P2P filesharing works the same way. Normal people get unfriendly letters from lawyers.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by sparkzilla on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:49PM (#17974215)
And yet people still download Torrents.