EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’

Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by 6ue7nNMEEbHcM on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:35AM (#17976506)

> I wonder how long until companies outside of Europe decide it's easier just to block all traffic from Europe in protest.

Exactly this. I already hit error 451 when trying to read some local news in US when browsing from Europe (I don't remember name of the page now). This happened after GPDR came into effect. I can totally relate with companies who don't want to deal with legal mess related with GPDR and other nonsense from EU an prefer to just show the user error 451 page. I'm pretty sure VPN providers and huge companies like Google will benefit from this legislation.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by AndyMcConachie on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:44AM (#17976549)

European here. I can't view some major newspapers in the US such as the LA Times. Smallers ones like the Virginia Gazette and Daily Press are also verboten for me.

Many US newspapers now redirect to tronc.com for a standard disclaimer.

For example, the LA Times redirects to http://www.tronc.com/gdpr/latimes.com/, which says this.

Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by mike10010100 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:03AM (#17978673)

This also happens to me. Evidently my FiOS IP looks European despite the fact that I live near NYC...

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by Grangar on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:05AM (#17978267)

I just use outline.com/[url]. Also helps to circumvent paywalls.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by crististm on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:27AM (#17977204)

An universal ban like this is exactly the needed cure

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by spurcell93 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:35AM (#17979435)

Ditto. I was in Europe for a month this summer, and a disturbingly large amount of pages were unavailable to me.

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by swebs on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:56AM (#17977316)

> I already hit error 451 when trying to read some local news in US when browsing from Europe

The Frederick News Post of Frederick, Maryland does this.

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/

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