Oh yeah good luck trying to stop library genesis/scihub/PirateBay with that. Meanwhile everyone else doing business legally will have to suffer while the perpetrators go free.
We already have lots of tools to block user access from the EU, time to upgrade them!
The EU fail to understand that the internet is inherently free and you can’t regulate it well (unless you’re a dictatorship in China, but you have bigger issues there).
This is the real bummer, IMO. It's not even like they're reaching the sites that truly, genuinely don't give a fuck about copyright. The big sites have long implemented all of this, anyway.
It's basically just more bureaucracy if you're running a start-up or mid-sized company and want to do things by the book. Something to worry about, something to fear. I genuinely wonder if copyright holders will make a single cent off this.
> I genuinely wonder if copyright holders will make a single cent off this.
What’s to wonder about? Of course they won’t.
At best nothing will change. At worst people start removing links and contents driving them traffic in fear of link-taxes and fines. Not to mention large-scale exclusion/filtering for EU users and content platforms.
> Oh yeah good luck trying to stop library genesis/scihub/PirateBay with that. Meanwhile everyone else doing business legally will have to suffer while the perpetrators go free.
That's not what this law purpose is. There's already copyright laws covering these cases.
They are targeting Google and likes. And also making sure that Google and likes have no serious competition due to the financial burden these laws impose on new comers.
Websites that distribute pirated content are already illegal.
We already have lots of tools to block user access from the EU, time to upgrade them!
The EU fail to understand that the internet is inherently free and you can’t regulate it well (unless you’re a dictatorship in China, but you have bigger issues there).