Forget GDPR, EU's New Copyright Proposal Will Be a Disaster for the Internet

They can (but aren't forced to) avoid that liability by making "best efforts to prevent the availability of specific works or other subject matter by implementing effective and proportionate measures, [...], to prevent the availability on its services of the specific works or other subject matter identified by rightholders and for which the rightholders have provided the service with relevant and necessary information for the application of these measures" and "upon notification by rightholders of works or other subject matter, it has acted expeditiously to remove or disable access to these works".

There's also some stuff in there saying these measures should be "effective and proportionate", taking into account how big the company is, how much content is uploaded on their platform and the availability, cost and effectiveness of the measures.

Ugh, Is Google too then?

EDIT: Misunderstood OP, it appears he/she was being sarcastic.

Shutting down wayback machine will not benefit society, keeping it open and supporting it will.

Edit: If this was a sarcasm that i didn't get as another poster pointed out, ignore above message.

I'm curious how you plan to stop this from happening. To me that seems like an inevitable future, and a decent description of our present society. Is it so bad?

Startups could never self regulate and never will. And a few bad startups can be enough to do massive damages.

Look Cambridge analytica: this startup alone made the case for regulations like GDPR.

As a user, I really am pleased with gdpr, so that "do-no-evil" startups stop selling my data around and not caring at all about my privacy.

Because I can demand them to properly delete my account, and they must properly disclose data breaches, and because they can't just sell their recording of my activity to whomever they feel? That's poison?

> Most websites have anti-scraping techniques in place if you are not Google-bot.

Do you have sources on this?

> Self regulation is the way to go

How will a voluntary group enforce their own regulations? Especially on the Internet?

Can you name successes in self-regulation? And in the last 10 years?

I think if the past few months have shown anything, it is that GDPR is a highly divisive issue. There have been a host of both negative and positive submissions regarding it, many of which have had spirited discussios in the comments. This is the Internet, so there is plenty of hot air on both sides, but with some digging I’ve also found nuance and rigor in the arguments.

As for your point of self regulation, while I feel GDPR is a disaster in it’s implementation, I think it has come about as a reaction to the lack of sufficient self regulation on the part of tech companies. It’s simply become de rigeur for companies to attach a mandatory, 10 page, tiny font in the footer, flagrantly anti-consumer, adhesive contract to every website and app and then to shirk all responsibility when they screw up. Not exactly the model of self regulation.

Do you realize how wrong that sounds? The EU should provide upload filters for all companies that put content on the internet? Wow! Yeah, let's make everyone have to get approval from Brussels every time they publish anything. What could possibly go wrong?

Edit: It's okay to disagree with my comment. But why not share your view with us instead of just downvoting me?

The checksum is clearly not enough in this case, so EU administering bodies would have to set up a really sophisticated system - and in countries where getting even an appointment date to the social healthcare system is nigh impossible I see literally zero chance for such a backend (so everyone's on their own).

In this case what's happening here is that we are killing the internet as we know it (or knew it five years ago). Government bodies most of the time are incompetent in IT (unless they have an ulterior motive, like large scale censorship or surveillance), so you're probably better off relying the giants' service and create a facebook page, or a google doc, instead of building something on your own (creating a gray net).

There are many worst case scenarios with this law. Facebook and Google creating a new Internet, government bodies setting up "copyright servers" (with advanced data mining capabilites), link tax rendering hyperlinks feared, extortion schemes by shady organizations and lawyers, implementation tax for software development, fear of innovations et cetera.