EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by lbj on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:42AM (#18912441)

I'm glad you find it hillarious. You must not be paying for it.

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by guitarbill on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:22PM (#18912850)

For anybody following along, this kind of garbage rhetoric is exactly how Brexit started.

1. Spread misinformation and sow discontent against the EU

2. ???

3. Profit

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by DuskStar on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:46PM (#18913691)

I think this formulation is a bit more accurate:

1. Mention an obscure irritant that is superficially not the EU's fault, and blame the EU for it

2. EU supporters pile on and say that this is what all anti-EU arguments are like

3. When examined in more detail, the irritant actually IS the EU's fault

4. People then accept #2 as true, and hate the EU more (since apparently if they examined all the obvious BS about the EU more closely, they'd find it to be true)

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by Silhouette on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:00PM (#18913268)

I might not put things in quite such confrontational terms, but the general complaint some people are making here is valid. The EU does have a track record of taking on technical issues without adequately understanding them and so legislating with perhaps good intentions but not always good results. This has caused significant damage to many organisations because of (presumably) unintended side effects, and obviously that does then have a chilling effect on things like investment plans and even whether to start new businesses at all.

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by guitarbill on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:26PM (#18914073)

So do all governments. It's just easier to hate the EU

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by Silhouette on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:04PM (#18916547)

So do all governments.

That's true, but not all governments do it with the same ratio of genuine benefit to unwanted side-effects and collateral damage.

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Re:EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expressi... by emptyfile on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:47AM (#18919746)

Of course I'm not paying for it.

We don't have cinnamon patrols in my EU country, it sounds like the silliest thing in the world.

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