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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by tomatotomato37 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:50PM (#19156866)
It's not that absurd; remember the SOPA protests of 2012? It prevented the US from enacting retarded legislation, no reason it couldn't work against EU too.
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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by Mirioron on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:06PM (#19157566)
Wikipedia did this on one vote of article 11 & 13.
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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by raverbashing on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:12PM (#19157612)
Yes, hence why the current text has an exception for them

(They should still campaign against it though)

Except for art 11. Art 11 is shooting news orgs themselves in the foot, as evidenced by previous experiences in Spain and Germany.

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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by vesinisa on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:10PM (#19158061)
But Wikipedia is not even covered by the exceptions. They would have to fill all of the following criteria to not need apply upload filters:

1. Available to the public for less than 3 years,

2. Annual turnover below €10 million, and

3. Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors.

They fail 1 & 3 for certain. Possibly 2 as well (e.g. in 2017 WMF paid $33 million in staff salaries alone.)

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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by raverbashing on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:20PM (#19158137)
No, read the actual text, there's an explicit exception for online encyclopedias and other non-profit websites
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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by pexaizix on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:27PM (#19157748)
EU busybodies are unaccountable, unelected and practically live in another dimension. There's no way something like the SOPA protests could work here.
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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by isostatic on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:37AM (#19160069)
MEPs are elected. They are accountable via votes every 5 years.
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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by c3o on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:51PM (#19157918)
In fact, they already did: The ACTA protests.
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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by rmoriz on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:23PM (#19158160)
True. But mostly due to anti-americanism.

I was strongly against ACTA because it was kind of a black box, I supported one of the biggest events in Germany against it.

But I had hopes that we could change the way such big contracts are getting designed and agreed upon. How naively I was...

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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by ionised on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:50AM (#19160967)
> True. But mostly due to anti-americanism.

I'd love to see you prove this.

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Re:The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has... by rmoriz on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:57AM (#19169701)
Just listen to members of the left party or the pirate party. That was also a reason I left and quit all my political work.
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