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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by CodeMage on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:37PM (#17971680)
I share your perplexion. At best, these technical solutions will just break off a smaller, "splinter" Internet, unused by the vast majority of users. The average user does not know or care about these things and this isn't likely to change without an effort to properly educate future generations.
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by badloginagain on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:28PM (#17972261)
Moving from a world wide web to a decentralized, fractured web? Instead of WWW you have FBW (FacebookWeb, GW (GoogleWeb), AW (AppleWeb). What a sad future that would be.
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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by marknadal on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:18PM (#17973983)
If there is no service then GDPR acts as a higher precedent. EU would have to change their law that users are not allowed to store XYZ content on their own harddrives.

So yes, P2P/decentralization is a perfectly legal alternative for the time being.

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