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1. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2019 13:16:48 UTC switching.social

   Just to emphasise, the battle isn't over about #Article13:

   https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-disastrous-internet-law-what-happens-next

   "But there’s also opportunities for the courts to rein in the Directive – or even throw out its worst articles entirely. ... Article 13 is meant to be compatible with the older E-Commerce Directive, which explicitly forbids any requirement to proactively monitor for IP enforcement (a provision that was upheld and strengthened by the ECJ in 2011)."

   This could take many years to happen with many possible twists.

   • Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2019 13:30:22 UTC switching.social

     in reply to

     Things that can still stop #Article13:

     -Council of Ministers can still reject it

     -Individual countries still have to create their own laws to enforce it (this is not like GDPR, which came into force directly). This could cause a lot of friction against the law.

     -Article 13's requirements are technically impossible: it requires filters to stop all piracy while allowing all fair use. This makes the law vulnerable to being rewritten/rejected at some point in the future.