Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copyright law
&gt; Mr Voss also rubbished claims of an &quot;upload filter&quot;, saying the proposal would only affect 1%-5% of the internet. He also said the rules would apply to &quot;only those that actually publish copyright protected content&quot; and earn money from it.<p>The rubbish I see here is a man who doesn&#x27;t understand the laws he&#x27;s trying to push forward. All websites (for the most part) are trying to make at least enough money to keep running via advertising. Any website with a comments section (hey, this one included) would need to extensively monitor all posts by the public to ensure no one posts anything copyrighted.<p>What it will effectively mean is that many websites won&#x27;t bother allowing access from the EU anymore. Already, I have to screenshot and email my sister in Britain recipes from a Canadian website that doesn&#x27;t want to deal with GDPR. Imagine how difficult it will be when there&#x27;s copyright liabilities from content you didn&#x27;t know you were &#x27;publishing&#x27;.