Law EU Prepares to Fuck Up its Internet With Article 13 - Continuing the EU's Proud Crusade to Fuck Up Everything it Touches

From Edri.org:

On 25 May, the European Council agreed to a negotiating position on the draft copyright directive. This will allow the presidency of the Council to start negotiations with the European Parliament on mass monitoring and filtering of internet uploads and a chaotic new “ancillary copyright” measure that will make it harder to link to and quote news sources.

Despite a large number of demands from a wide range of different stakeholders (including EDRi and Copyright for Creativity) to keep working on the text in order to create some semblance of balance, the Council decided to finalise its position with a flawed text. This position, as well as the mandate to the Council to negotiate, was voted against by Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Belgium and Hungary. [Update on 30 May]

Now it is the turn of the European Parliament to adopt its negotiating position. The Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament (JURI) is voting on 20 and 21 June to agree on their standpoint. There is still time to act to prevent the most dangerous parts of the proposal. In the table below and here, you can find the mapping prepared by the MEP Julia Reda on where political parties in the EP stand regarding both the snippet tax and the censorship machine proposals. Due to the relative size of the groups and the splits in some of them, the balance is in favour of these measures, so there is a realistic danger that these policies can become law.

Meanwhile, from Techdirt:

The EU's new copyright reform proposal is set to be voted on next month and it will truly be disastrous to the internet. As it currently stands, it will require widespread censorship in the form of mandatory filtering and also link taxes that have already been shown to be harmful to news.

Make platforms directly liable for all copyright infringements by their users, and then offer that they can avoid that unreasonable liability if they can show they’ve done everything in their power to prevent copyrighted content from appearing online – namely, by deploying upload filters (Article 13, paragraph 4). Which remain totally optional, of course! Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Mr Voss’ latest draft expands the scope of the censorship machines proposal to all web platforms (a) whose purpose is to “give access to copyrighted content uploaded by users” and which (b) “optimise” that content. What counts as optimising? Among a long list of actions, we find that “displaying” the uploads already makes platforms legally liable for any copyright infringement they may include (Recital 37a). And in his version, web services can’t even avoid liability by implementing upload filters.

To protect themselves from being sued, they would need to get licenses from all rightsholders that exist on the planet before allowing user uploads to go online, just in case the upload may contain (parts of) any of their works.He also claims that checking every new user upload for whether it includes one of hundreds or thousands of specific copyrighted works somehow does not constitute “general monitoring” (Recital 39), which would be forbidden – now that’s some wishful lawmaking.

https://openmedia.org/sites/default/files/stl-article13-faq.pdf

http://copybuzz.com/copyright/5-fundamental-flaws-censorship-filter/

http://copyright4creativity.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/DCDSM-Article13-C4CFactsheet.pdf

Some eurosperg explains it in video format.


Interestingly, a lot of the EU's membership is understandably not on board with this insanity, which leads us to this particularly juicy tidbit (emphasis mine):

A member of the JURI committee, who said he did not wish to be named, said, “I know that several members of our committee have come under huge pressure to vote in favour of this particular proposal. The German CDU, via its EPP affiliate, has been reportedly pressuring them to vote what you might call the ‘right’ way. As part of their efforts to convince them to do this there have been reports of threats of members not being allocated reports and parliamentary positions if, basically, they don’t do as they are told. The alleged involvement of the German publishers gives cause for some concern.”

He added, “I understand how things work in this parliament and lobbying is part and parcel of the EU decision making process but when it comes to 'threats and warnings' that is crossing a line.”

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I doubt anything will happen. This will be rejected.

 

[Derp Potato]

It's their best way to combat the alt-right and hide those nasty reports of rape from all of their "war-torn" migrants.

 

[José Mourinho]

This will allow the presidency of the Council to start negotiations with the European Parliament on mass monitoring and filtering of internet uploads and a chaotic new “ancillary copyright” measure that will make it harder to link to and quote news sources.

What's even the whole point of it? To combat fake news? To combat news that claim said news are fake news?

If it's copyright infringement related, isn't there something related like SOPA which burned and failed?

 

[Forever Train Engineer]

It amazes me the things people will do to not be called racist.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

It amazes me the things people will do to not be called racist.

Well it's working. Instead of being called racist, they're being called idiots.

 

[Bagronkleton]

What's even the whole point of it? To combat fake news? To combat news that claim said news are fake news?

If it's copyright infringement related, isn't there something related like SOPA which burned and failed?

Simple, a last ditch effort by the EU to control the global flow of information. Nothing more, nothing less. No more nasty tommy robinsons, no more sharing info counter to what The State says. Play by arbitrary filter rules or pay the fee. Copyright infringement is just the same tired old rag of an excuse. It affects EVERYTHING on the internet from businesses, entertainment, to the very basic simple act of copying and pasting a link. It is simply disgusting in just how much it will grab. This isnt a finger in every pie soorta deal, it's fisting the baker directly.

What I find particularly infuriating is how the collective internet suddenly had dirty crapped briefs over net neutrality but is strangely silent on Article 13 in comparison.

 

[Hux]

What I find particularly infuriating is how the collective internet suddenly had dirty crapped briefs over net neutrality but is strangely silent on Article 13 in comparison.

I would argue that it's because with the net neutrality thing, it's greatly because it was a primarily American issue and if there's one thing to be said about Americans is that when they find something to collectively bitch about, they bitch loud, long and hard, especially online. Since this is primarily a European issue, these same Americans have basically figured that none of what the Europeans are going through directly affects them or anyone they know on their continent, why should they give a fuck?

Plus that, it doesn't help that the Europeans don't have the sort of lightning rod of public hatred that Pai was

 

[AnOminous]

This isnt a finger in every pie soorta deal, it's fisting the baker directly.

When you fuck with the baker, you fuck with everyone who eats bread.

Louis XVI learned this at the foot of the guillotine.

 

[Splendid]

All this will do is ensure even more American monopolization of internet content and platforms (thanks guys!) or force all Europeans to endure lag as they have to fetch at least some of their resources from a server that's physically in the US.
I've heard good things about Icelandic laws though, so maybe Iceland is just about to get rich instead?

 

[Slap47]

Remember when the left opposed the EU because it was a neoliberal dream?

 

[Jaimas]

Remember when the left opposed the EU because it was a neoliberal dream?

Pepperidge Farms Kiwi Farms remembers.

 

[Secret Asshole]

The EU is deathly terrified of the truth of their incompetence reaching the masses. With the rise of Trump came the rise of nationalist movements. They are scared shitless of more Brexits (which will honestly never happen. They will keep holding referendums until the population votes the right way).

The way to limit it is to control the flow of information, institute draconian hate speech legislation and then clamp down hard. Which is what they are doing.

Eventually the EU will have its own 'great firewall' except it will be done in the name of progress with a boot on the neck.

 

[Slap47]

The EU is deathly terrified of the truth of their incompetence reaching the masses. With the rise of Trump came the rise of nationalist movements. They are scared shitless of more Brexits (which will honestly never happen. They will keep holding referendums until the population votes the right way).

The way to limit it is to control the flow of information, institute draconian hate speech legislation and then clamp down hard. Which is what they are doing.

Eventually the EU will have its own 'great firewall' except it will be done in the name of progress with a boot on the neck.

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537

EU Commissions a study -> Doesn't get the results they want -> Hides study

Truly a horrifying organization.

 

[Aplhorn]

I kind of want this to go through so I can act smug to the Europoors.

 

[Forever Train Engineer]

https://youtu.be/-f17NWEhgwY

 

[Forever Train Engineer]

The EU is deathly terrified of the truth of their incompetence reaching the masses. With the rise of Trump came the rise of nationalist movements. They are scared shitless of more Brexits (which will honestly never happen. They will keep holding referendums until the population votes the right way).

The way to limit it is to control the flow of information, institute draconian hate speech legislation and then clamp down hard. Which is what they are doing.

Eventually the EU will have its own 'great firewall' except it will be done in the name of progress with a boot on the neck.

The EU is aware that they are losing the war with nationalists, and the truth, so they'll try to bring everything down with them.

 

[Male Idiot]

The EU is aware that they are losing the war with nationalists, and the truth, so they'll try to bring everything down with them.

I'm not sure they are totally aware. I just think in the back of their subconscious they are aware of it, but their conscious minds are in the closest about it, full denial mode engaged.

 

[Bagronkleton]

The EU is aware that they are losing the war with nationalists, and the truth, so they'll try to bring everything down with them.

The desperate flailing in the final moments of a dying corpulent beast.

 

[Secret Asshole]

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537

EU Commissions a study -> Doesn't get the results they want -> Hides study

Truly a horrifying organization.

Incompetent, because its filled with nepotism and neo-liberals. Corrupt, because its filled with globalists who seek massive profits and are unaffected by the policies they enact.

The EU is aware that they are losing the war with nationalists, and the truth, so they'll try to bring everything down with them.

The problem is that there's only really one way to win and that's to go full China. The EU is too big of pussies to go through with it. The thing is, US Citizenry is not going to accept European Law stifling their speech. We don't want European faggotry over here. So the EU will eventually have to police itself. We will not accept EU laws dictating shit. Maybe eurocucks will. People will go apeshit over here.

 

[AnOminous]

The EU is deathly terrified of the truth of their incompetence reaching the masses. With the rise of Trump came the rise of nationalist movements. They are scared shitless of more Brexits (which will honestly never happen. They will keep holding referendums until the population votes the right way).

They really need to rethink the entire concept of the EU. It's pretty obvious that the dream of European federalism is stillborn. These countries are all unique cultures of their own and they neither can nor will become anything like the United States.

However, they've invested a lot in creating shit like the Eurozone. They need to find a way to retain the economic community and, one hopes, the Euro itself, which is so far as I can tell, the only thing worth saving. This idea of it being some kind of overarching multinational government is just not working out. If they can't let it go, they'll lose every bit of advance that's happened. Now we have a government in Italy that's actively hostile even to the Euro itself, which sounds almost insane to me, since that's the one EU thing that has benefited nearly every stagnant economy in the EU (especially the Eastern European states).

The EU is pissing all over its member nations to the point that they'd throw away the few good things about it to get rid of the German/French/Belgian tyranny.