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BRbradley13เมื่อวาน
It's not just Europe. DMCA takedowns in the US: no liability for taking down innocent content.
Really, it comes down to this: censorship is bad. Always.
If someone violates the law, get a court judgement. With the judgement in hand, take down that specific material.
Too much work? Tough...
THthrowa356262เมื่อวาน
Such an obvious thing, should have been there from day 1.
The situation in Spain is particularly crazy. How can la liga have this much power over the Internet?
THthrowawayffffasเมื่อวาน
It's their fault to begin with, they should have not caved to blocking anyone, they should have stood firm or offer up the 'Oh no we couldn't possibly figure out how to do that, it's entirely too complicated, you wouldn't understand.' excuse all other tech companies put out whenever they are told to do something trivial.
But hopefully this is the beginning of them growing a backbone.
LOlondons_exploreเมื่อวาน
The real damage from over blocking isn't a few customer service calls to the ISP or a couple of lost customers...
The real damage is the millions of hours of wasted time of the citizens of the nation.
ARArubisเมื่อวาน
This strikes me as the right move, but the timing isn't lost on me. Model training companies want easier access to data, and they have a lot of money and are growing their lobbying and political influence muscles.
The culture of the people should belong to _the people_. Let's make sure this doesn't just turn into a transfer of which small subset manages to profit from it.
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It's not just Europe. DMCA takedowns in the US: no liability for taking down innocent content. Really, it comes down to this: censorship is bad. Always. If someone violates the law, get a court judgement. With the judgement in hand, take down that specific material. Too much work? Tough...
Such an obvious thing, should have been there from day 1. The situation in Spain is particularly crazy. How can la liga have this much power over the Internet?
It's their fault to begin with, they should have not caved to blocking anyone, they should have stood firm or offer up the 'Oh no we couldn't possibly figure out how to do that, it's entirely too complicated, you wouldn't understand.' excuse all other tech companies put out whenever they are told to do something trivial. But hopefully this is the beginning of them growing a backbone.
The real damage from over blocking isn't a few customer service calls to the ISP or a couple of lost customers... The real damage is the millions of hours of wasted time of the citizens of the nation.
This strikes me as the right move, but the timing isn't lost on me. Model training companies want easier access to data, and they have a lot of money and are growing their lobbying and political influence muscles. The culture of the people should belong to _the people_. Let's make sure this doesn't just turn into a transfer of which small subset manages to profit from it.