Do I even want to argue this? If I had to sum it up I’ll just say, I’m glad Blossomforth exists (and others who have comprehension and are level-headed), and also that I appreciate people paying attention to political happenings and sharing them.
BUT this is still hysteria and I can’t endorse that.
Why does this get posted like 1 day before the deadline without giving people who care time to actually follow up on it? I’m confused. This all seems either very clumsy or intentionally rushed.
@The Frowning Pony
There are a lot of interpretations about how bad this actually is, but a fair one is this: if an image subject to copyright is uploaded by a user, the site itself is immediately guilty of violating copyright.
The text of the article does not seem to support this claim. Actually this seems to me a gross misrepresentation of the truth.
I think Blossomforth covered this for those who don’t have time or reading comprehension though.
I’m guessing there is a cause for concern for users of sites that DO allow the sharing of illegal content on the basis that misuse of the site by users is not their responsibility; but in the end all this asks for is to have some anti-piracy measurement for place and can provide proof of that.
It seems people fear this being a slippery slope towards more laws than the actual article.
Such as:
@Lord Seraph
@Background Pony #F227
Regardless. It needs to be shot down.
We can’t ever put blind trust on our politicians over these things, especially when we are dealing against a type of government that is known to have tendencies to bend the rules to how they see fit.
So the concern is that the law may be misused as a different law but if that is possible why even wait for this law? Is your faith in law and order so little? I get the fear of things shifting in a certain way, but this particular article stll doesn’t strike me as so wrong. We already have anti-piracy and copyright protection laws in place, in fact Fair Use doesn’t even technically exist in most of Europe. So why exactly is this worse…?
Second, I know it’s common in the US to mail your representative. I did email my City Hall representative about issues in my town before. But I honestly don’t think emailing your EU representative works as well as people make it out to be. It seems a very US type of thinking to suggest this. Sure, petitions may get some notice but…Why is random people emailing a solution? I don’t want to take a stand on an issue I didn’t even research against someone my counry tasked with doing that because a random internet person said they weren’t doing their job.
@Background Pony #F70C
Remembers me of the SOPA and PIA bullshit around 2012. Hope you europeans can get retain your rights.
That is actually a perfect example of a prior mass hysteria. And Orphan Works before that. The internet was up in arms for years over this legistation about allowing very old works where the creator’s identity was lost to history to be published legally that would supposedly lead to the legalization of art theft.
As with this one, people just asked you to take their word for it.
And also like with this one, tons of people took the bait on a simple basis of better safe than sorry.
Which is just like how mass hysteria works.