Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us...
by salawat on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:23PM
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Good. It's about time we took a hard damn look at the ludicrous mockery of common sense that copyright has made of things. Maybe people will start to appreciate the freedom to create once they realize that $industry has made it nogh impossible to do anything without getting sued.
The solution to bad law is not to ignore it, it's to follow it to the letter, every time. Only then will people sit up take notice, and weigh the tradeoffs. In particular, we've let industry run away with far too much of the public's right to do things.
For most videos, this would be a copyright violation. i.e. there are now two laws which prevent reasonable technological solutions, making it harder for most people to host and produce content - favoring the already heavily advantaged big companies.