Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform
by mrep on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:09AM
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Depends on how the link tax is played out. If companies are forced to pay a websites owner to link to it, I doubt even Google or Facebook would pay for that considering Google dropped German websites when they tried to get Google to pay them with their own link tax law. Then you'd have your website, but nothing would link to it and you would never get any traffic besides the people you specifically tell about it.
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Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform
by Juliate on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:56AM
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Depends yes.
But even if it plays a restrictive tune, what if we use /robots.txt to explicitly tell if the website or specific contents can be freely indexed & linked to?
It smells like an opportunity to reboot the Web in a less centralized fashion.