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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by janoc on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:47AM (#17977274)
And how is an SME with 10 million annual turnover (that's not profit, that's revenue before all the expenses are taken out) ever going to build a competing platform to e.g. Google or Facebook?

All this does is to put a token nod in place that we don't want to kill the SMEs outright but once they grow enough to be "dangerous", they better start paying or else. And if they can't, tough luck ...

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Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ... by lossolo on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:17AM (#17978336)
> All this does is to put a token nod in place that we don't want to kill the SMEs outright but once they grow enough to be "dangerous", they better start paying or else. And if they can't, tough luck ...

No, this means that when you get over 10 mil euro, then you have enough money to pay for third party solution to content filtering. This costs couple of thousands a month and you are covered. You don't need to create your own ContentID platform to comply with the law.

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