Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU Copyright Directive
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/18/ultras-vs-windowdressing.html
The record labels have joined the movie studios in denouncing
the working version of Article 13, and calling for the
impossible: a rollback of the tiny, largely ornamental changes
made in order to give the Directive a hope of passing (they
were complaining about Monday's version of the Directive, but
the version that leaked yesterday doesn't fix any of their
problems). The record labels are willing to risk the whole
thing going down in flames rather than tolerate the symbolic
gestures to compromise that have been gently draped over the
spiderwebbing of cracks in the Directive. Now that Article 13
has not a single friend in the world, save for a single,
lonely German MEP, maybe it's time we stopped holding the
future of European copyright to ransom for the sake of a few
recording companies who are willing to sacrifice the free
expression of 500,000,000 Europeans to eke out a few more
points of profit.
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