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How would that have that effect?

I'm no expert, but from what I've heard, site owners can be held liable for hosting copyrighted material now. If you're running a site with lots of user generated content, it could be difficult to distinguish what is 100% user made vs copied from somewhere else.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

It's time to start copyright check startup.

You are absolutely correct. This law could have such effect.

More realistically, this is a problem that has no easy technical solution that originates from a law that still isn't adopted.

If I were an owner of such platform, I wouldn't worry too much about it now. In a year... maybe.

Even more realistically: is there any reason to assume any of this stuff will ever be enforced, let alone enforced against obscure forums?

Here in the UK, these sorts of laws have had, as far as I know, zero enforcement.

http://nocookielaw.com/ https://silktide.com/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/ https://silktide.com/dear-ico-this-is-why-web-developers-hat...

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