"Wikimedia: EU copyright reform threatens the ‘free web""

[ericbarbour]

They've run shit like this before but today they managed to somehow talk TechCrunch into running it:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/04/wikim ... -free-web/

And then one of the cultists posted it to Slashdot. Where it got very little attention--as usual for a dying "movement". It also reveals that the July blackout protest by some language WPs wasn't terribly successful, as the EU Parliament is plunging ahead in its usual semi-wandering way. Anyone wanna take bets on how long it will be until Jimbo goes to one of his handpicked "friendly Guardian writers" and delivers another of his ill-assembled screeds about how evil the EUP is?

https://slashdot.org/story/18/09/04/185 ... edium=feed

There's some comment in there about "link taxes". As I keep saying, the Internet has escaped the usual taxation/regulation/censorship bit that governments have always slapped onto communications media. This might change in the EU--for better or worse, it's impossible to say. But it WILL ruin the angry little walled garden of crazy that we call Commons.

PS, they recategorized their "vintage dirty picture" collection again:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... sex_in_art

[AndrewForson]

Their blog Can Beethoven send takedown requests?

Betteridge's Law: No. Scroll down to September 3

Wikipedia contributors already work hard to catch and remove infringing content if it does appear. This system, which is largely driven by human efforts, is very effective at preventing copyright infringement

We know, and she ought to know, that this is false. The Norton cleanup project has been underway for seven years and at current rates will finish around 2030.

[Graaf Statler]

Here we go again.

*Licences and copyright is NOT a EU matter, but a matter of the national parliaments and the different country's.
*It is and it was never allowed to spread copyright in the EU country's. I mean material what was conflicting with the local regulation.
*article 13 is only about filtering the content, it is the same as placing a camera behind a traffic light what already exist for years.
*The voting is NOT about copyright in the EU, or in the copyright in the different EU country's.
*Any action is useless, it is a proposal for 2014 what has made a long way to come to this consensus. Nothing will be changed anymore.

In 2012 I did try to warn for what was coming what was the beginning of the tremendous Romaine and friends trolling and was the reason they have rewarded me with there SaFanBan at the end. They simple didn't want to listen.
And again, De piratenpartij has hardly any voters, so there is not any political support for a free interent in the way the free source movement want.
And that is what you need if you want to change something, political support of the national parliaments. It is unthinkable the EU will follow a other course than the national parlement of the members of the EU, and legal impossible! Because the EU can't overrule the national parliaments.