{"id":7710,"date":"2018-05-01T07:26:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=7710"},"modified":"2021-08-02T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:17:00","slug":"the-european-commissions-upload-censorship-for-copyright-is-already-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/the-european-commissions-upload-censorship-for-copyright-is-already-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Commission&#8217;s &#8220;Upload Censorship for Copyright&#8221; is already obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Julia Reda has <a href=\"https:\/\/felixreda.eu\/eu-copyright-reform\/censorship-machines\/\">continuously reported<\/a> from inside the European Parliament, the European Commission is pushing for an update to copyright monopoly laws that would introduce upload-time censorship on copyright grounds. It would not only make sites like GitHub illegal, be ineffective, and apply law incorrectly in its automated censorship; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/just-like-that-the-copyright-industry-lost-everything-theyd-fought-for\/\">yesterday\u2019s piece of news<\/a>, it\u2019s also <em>already obsolete,<\/em> as far as enforcing the crumbling copyright monopoly goes.<\/p>\n<p>Julia Reda has reported time and again on the copyright industry\u2019s persistent efforts to get the concept of <em>notice-and-takedown<\/em> replaced by <em>notice-and-staydown<\/em> in law: in other words, if you run a platform that accepts any kind of user contributions, you would be required to screen <em>every<\/em> submission against a list of notices for \u201cstaydown\u201d that you\u2019ve received.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, ridiculous for a very large number of reasons. But as with <a href=\"https:\/\/falkvinge.net\/2012\/01\/27\/the-copyright-industry-a-century-of-deceit\/\">everything else<\/a> coming out of the copyright industry, that doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t become law, absent reasonable and forceful opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The notion of a physical noticeboard owner, who needed to pre-screen every single notice somebody put up on the board against a millions-item-long list that the proposed boardnotice can\u2019t even be similar to, is of course utterly absurd. But as we have seen, Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights aren\u2019t passed down to our children\u2019s digital environment, and that\u2019s <em>precisely<\/em> because of this kind of lobbying.<\/p>\n<p>However, it also shows that the copyright industry <em>still<\/em> doesn\u2019t understand that the Internet is the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofends.com\/\">World of Ends<\/a>, that there\u2019s no chokepoint on it that the (or indeed governments) can control and regulate \u2014 or at least, regulate with any hope of success of compliance.<\/p>\n<p>And with yesterday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/just-like-that-the-copyright-industry-lost-everything-theyd-fought-for\/\">news<\/a> that there\u2019s a new technique that\u2019s literally uncensorable for posting magnet links <em>anyway<\/em>, the proposed upload filters \u2014 horrible as they are \u2014 are already obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Julia Reda has continuously reported from inside the European Parliament, the European Commission is pushing for an update to copyright monopoly laws that would introduce upload-time censorship on copyright grounds. 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