> Make platforms directly liable for all copyright infringements by their users, and then offer that they can avoid that unreasonable liability if they can show

> Make platforms directly liable for all copyright infringements by their users, and then offer that they can avoid that unreasonable liability if they can show they’ve done everything in their power to prevent copyrighted content from appearing online – namely, by deploying upload filters (Article 13, paragraph 4). Which remain totally optional, of course! Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. I have some personal story about this. A while ago a certain person decided to scan some books copyrighted by me and put it on Scribd. Every few weeks he'd scan one and upload it, saying that information should be free. I contacted Scribd and my experience was overly negative. Yes, they would wait a few days, then answer and remove the book. Then this person would reupload it, and the story repeated itself. Basically, the book was longer on rather than off Scribd. I repeatedly asked Scribd to take it more seriously, and, for example, remove the offending account, but they refused. They did it in the end after some weeks. Of course the same day that person uploaded all books again under another account. It all looked like a joke, as if the copyright law was some boring invention that they only pretended to observe. Now, this was a few years ago, and maybe things changed since, I don't know. But at that time it felt like Scribd was cooperating more with the offender than with me.