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Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by cbg0 on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @08:18AM (#19491017)
A bunch of people are about to lose their seats in the upcoming European Parliament elections in May.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by aembleton on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:34AM (#19491601)
Doubt it. I don't think many people know or care about this.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by bashwizard on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:48AM (#19491749)
Just wait until they eventually are greeted with a notice "Sorry, we've blocked all users from Europe due to the new copyright reform" on every major social media site/app.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by tutanchamun on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:23AM (#19492665)
They should also show a picture of the one responsible for it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dm9jfQ7XoAA4E5B.jpg:large or even better, the animated original: https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1040140221164281856

Sadly neither will happen. The major social media sites and apps were too silent this time around. Back in 2012 when ACTA was voted on there was much more activity.

Since Youtube and Facebook etc. already have filter mechanisms in place they probably want to profit from it by selling it as a SAAS to smaller companies that don't have the resources to implement their own filtering.

Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by phatfish on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:11AM (#19491982)
I though this was supposed to happen after the GDPR was made law... still waiting.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by bashwizard on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:15AM (#19492025)
I didn't. I expected to be greeted with "We care about your privacy" and then have to opt in or not being able to access the content.

I was right.

Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by kaybe on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:43AM (#19492297)
I still see far too many sites which want me to opt out of 100+ trackers individually. I usually just leave. Thanks for hindering my procrastination habits I guess.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by phatfish on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:34AM (#19492185)
Fair enough.

Although I remember plenty of comments on HN about how Facebook et al. would be blocking EU users because it would be too expensive for them to comply with GDPR.

One or two US based newspaper websites were all I noticed blocking access because of compliance reasons. I expect a similar impact due to Article 13.

Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by kaitnieks on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:23PM (#19493244)
The big ones will be fine. They are already using filters. It's all the forums and such that have no way to implement the technology that the upcoming directive calls for, and they will have no choice but to block EU. Regarding news sites - usually it's the comments section that's the user created content, so I guess they could simply remove that for EU visitors, or, if that feels like a hassle, just block EU.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by mann1x on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @05:29PM (#19496199)
Almost all US regional newspaper websites are blocking access from EU. Many other US sites as well but luckily most of them they just don't care to comply or enable geo fencing.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by Xelbair on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:38AM (#19492235)
It happened for few sites - mostly smaller American news sites, and strangely enough - cooking sites.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by philpem on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:16AM (#19492032)
There are an absolute mountain of US sites which block European IP addresses to avoid GDPR. Mostly news outlets. I've never seen so many 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons errors in my life!

Still others present a "subscription required" page if you connect from Europe, but display the content if you access them from the US (or through archive.is).

Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by repolfx on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:55PM (#19493626)
I doubt it.

Parties and people who run for the European Parliament don't really have concrete policies or manifestos. In particular they can't run on a platform of repealing bad laws, because unlike in a real Parliament, they aren't allowed to do that. All they could do is politely ask the Commission to let them repeal the law, they'd be told no, that'd be the end of it.

So in practice EP politics are wafer thin and the only major differences between parties and politicians are to extent to which they are pro or anti EU. That's why the "Parliament" is stuffed with protest candidates from parties like UKIP. They can't actually do anything, they just make speeches and flame the rest of the MPs, but those MPs can't do anything either except egg on the Commission. So people tune out and don't care about European elections anymore.

There is some fear amongst the establishment now that the next EP elections will be different and people will send anti-EU candidates on a much larger scale than before. But not much fear, because the only thing these candidates can do is slow things down, and realistically even that won't happen because the EU frequently re-interprets its existing laws and treaties to give the Commission new powers on the fly. They'll just do more of that.

Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by tomjen3 on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:30AM (#19492725)
I wish, but even if they do it is far too late.
Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by pastor_elm on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:59AM (#19492432)
all those pewdepie subscribers gonna show up at the polls eh?