EU copyright law proposal rejected
I have to say (and I am not a fan of modern copyright law at all) that I&#x27;m undecided about this law.<p>I guess the contrarian in me requires more analysis and reasoning than I&#x27;ve found in the top google search results or following some of the links posted here on Hacker News.  In fact I&#x27;m aware that I often take positions based on disliking the presentation of arguments and this is a personal flaw.<p>But I have to say most of the pieces I read rub me up the wrong way by seemingly just repeating arguments from authority or presenting interpretations without any logical reasoning built on primary sources (i.e. the text of the directive).<p>Many of the pieces, even by respected sources, seem very click-baity where it seems there is competition to come up with the most apocalyptic claims.  The directive will lead to the end of the internet itself seems to be the bar.<p>When I finally found a piece which actually quoted text from article 13, for example, it didn&#x27;t seem to explicitly support many of the claims.  Is there a mandate or even reference to upload filters in the text of the article?  Does it reference memes at all?  I&#x27;m happy to be correct if there is.  But if there isn&#x27;t, I don&#x27;t see an obvious path from the primary text to these sort of claims.<p>The actual text of the article that I&#x27;ve seen quoted seems to simply codify the status quo that currently exists in nearly all countries.  Which is that content aggregators are oblidged to cooperate with copyright holders to block copyright infringement.  Google, youtube, eBay, etc., etc. have been doing this for years without &quot;killing the internet&quot;.  Don&#x27;t all countries with copyright laws already provide legal mechanisms for holder to force content aggregators to remove infringing material?<p>If that&#x27;s the case, then this is simply a typical EU directive - which just represents some sort of minimum standard based on the existing laws in the 28 countries.<p>As I said, I&#x27;m happy to be corrected if someone can provide an argument based on the text. Please reply with links or references instead of down voting :)