Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better
by jelly on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:42AM
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It's almost unbelievable that they want to remove the single piece of protection that makes Article 13 remotely acceptable to me: exemption for SMEs. If many small European internet platforms were allowed to grow in place of the existing American megaplatforms we could have a more competitive ecosystem (i.e. platforms couldn't suddenly change their policies or UIs without risk of significant user losses) and upload filters wouldn't be a legal requirement.
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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better
by azinman2 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:50AM
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But that’s been the case as we haven’t had article 13 yet, meanwhile where are all these competitive ecosystems?
Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better
by jelly on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:27PM
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Failing to overcome the network effect unfortunately. My (perhaps naive) hope for this copyright directive was that it would add a cost or limiting factor to the network effect, i.e. after your platform grows past a certain size you are accountable for every user and have to filter uploads at great cost.