Europe’s New Copyright Rules Are Like YouTube’s Content ID System—for the Entire Internet The European Union wants to take the upload filters that make no one happy and apply them to all content on the internet.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbk47b/europe-copyright-rules-content-id
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger. He’s the co-editor of Boing Boing. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. It’s the end-game for Europe’s catastrophic upload filters—and time is running out. Under the provisions of Article 13 of the proposed new EU Copyright Directive, any service that allows users to post text, sound, or video for public consumption must implement a copyright filter that checks to see whether user contributions match (or are similar to) known copyrighted works. Works that match the filter are censored.
@tor This would break the internet. Imagine YouTube Content ID, but for everything: blog comments, tweets, Github commits, Instagram photos, replies to newspaper articles, rental listings, dating profiles. This is being proposed in the EU. #Article13
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