Ross may need to start limiting link posting on the forums

[BTGBullseye]

https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-filter-proposals-being-sabotaged-says-mep-julia-reda-170601/

 

Apparently, there are some in the EU that would be happy to make Ross liable if one of us users were to post a link to something that turns out to be 'piracy'. I just thought I'd bring this up, as it affects all of us that have avatars of things that are copyrighted content. (my Star Trek avatar, despite being 'fair use', could wind up putting Ross in hot water with the EU if this happens)

[Lord Sinister]

https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-filter-proposals-being-sabotaged-says-mep-julia-reda-170601/

 

Apparently, there are some in the EU that would be happy to make Ross liable if one of us users were to post a link to something that turns out to be 'piracy'. I just thought I'd bring this up, as it affects all of us that have avatars of things that are copyrighted content. (my Star Trek avatar, despite being 'fair use', could wind up putting Ross in hot water with the EU if this happens)

 

The proposal for the enforcement of links and user-uploads was apparently rejected when the "Internal Market and Consumer Protection" members voted on this on June 8th.

 

Googling finds this handy summary of the vote: https://juliareda.eu/2017/06/imco-copyright-vote/

 

I attempted to dig out the actual documents on the website (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/imco/home.html), but it's late and I'm not completely sure I found everything/the right stuff, so I'm only linking to the main site, but I've no doubt the relevant documentation is all on there, somewhere. What is there appears to be fairly dry, but is undoubtedly useful.

 

The bottom line is that, for legitimate users, I do not believe we have anything to worry about right now.

[BTGBullseye]

I'm glad the vote turned out a somewhat sane result.

 

Still, it's disturbing that the proposal even made it that far.