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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
If I understand what you are suggesting - which is that hosting companies control what is on servers - then that is impossible. Scale this up beyond porn. Someone has to look at everything uploaded to facebook, youtube, google drive, onedrive, dropbox, every single place that you can upload files to.
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Well, the new EU copyright directive has been passed, so I wonder what will happen next?
Seems to me that hosting providers won't be exempt...
https://edri.org/copyright-directive...s-strike-back/
According to
https://www.article13.org/faq
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So some platforms are excluded?
Yes. the text will not apply to platforms like these:
Non-profit encyclopaedias like Wikipedia, and non-profit educational and scientific repositories
Cloud services for private use like DropBox
Open-source software developing platforms like GitHub
E-commerce sites that sell physical products, like Amazon
Personal blogs or discussion forums, because they don’t store and give access to a large amount of protected works.
TripAdvisor, dating websites, etc. – as long as the main purpose of the service is not to give access to a large amount of protected works posted by users and organized to make a profit from that activity.
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So, to me, it looks like all file sharing/hosting companies (except start-ups) are affected...
Too bad it's just EU.
