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"Only a handful of the largest tech companies have the technical and financial means to operate the sprawling filtering systems that this law demands." The sma

by vfc1 8y ago

"Only a handful of the largest tech companies have the technical and financial means to operate the sprawling filtering systems that this law demands." The smaller platforms often use under the hood Amazon AWS, Google Cloud or equivalent. Probably the copyright verification is going to be added at that level, and hopefully will be transparent to the platforms built on top of those cloud services. So hopefully, this will not impact smaller SaaS companies as much as it might look.

feanaro 8y ago
> So hopefully, this will not impact smaller SaaS companies as much as it might look. ... this would not impact smaller SaaS companies ... This isn't a law yet and I don't think most people want it to become one. That said, I disagree that this isn't a terrible burden for the small guy. Even if it would be trivial to set up, all the other downsides remain and it leads to lock-in in the form of dependence on large companies who have implemented this. More importantly, why do we want this? What benefits does this bring? I don't see many for the ordinary person.
- jandrese 8y ago
  > More importantly, why do we want this? What benefits does this bring? I don't see many for the ordinary person. Maybe it could shift liability? So if someone posts the lyrics to a song and Sony sues them for 50,000 euro could they argue that it is the fault of the ISP for not filtering their post properly? This is a longshot, but I was trying very hard to think of some way in which this law doesn't screw over individuals for the benefit of large corporations.
GekkePrutser 8y ago
This is exactly what I fear: everyone outsourcing their filtering to a handful of big companies. These companies will then have the definitive say on what is posted online and what isn't. The Chinese will be jealous of our new censorship machine.

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"Only a handful of the largest tech companies have the technical and financial means to operate the sprawling filtering systems that this law demands." The sma

by vfc1 8y ago

feanaro 8y ago
> So hopefully, this will not impact smaller SaaS companies as much as it might look. ... this would not impact smaller SaaS companies ... This isn't a law yet and I don't think most people want it to become one. That said, I disagree that this isn't a terrible burden for the small guy. Even if it would be trivial to set up, all the other downsides remain and it leads to lock-in in the form of dependence on large companies who have implemented this. More importantly, why do we want this? What benefits does this bring? I don't see many for the ordinary person.
- jandrese 8y ago
  > More importantly, why do we want this? What benefits does this bring? I don't see many for the ordinary person. Maybe it could shift liability? So if someone posts the lyrics to a song and Sony sues them for 50,000 euro could they argue that it is the fault of the ISP for not filtering their post properly? This is a longshot, but I was trying very hard to think of some way in which this law doesn't screw over individuals for the benefit of large corporations.
GekkePrutser 8y ago
This is exactly what I fear: everyone outsourcing their filtering to a handful of big companies. These companies will then have the definitive say on what is posted online and what isn't. The Chinese will be jealous of our new censorship machine.