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Search, social, aggregators, and adtech's growing bite out of the whole advertising and media sales pie has been hurting the profits of older, lower-tech conten
by fludlight 8y ago
Search, social, aggregators, and adtech's growing bite out of the whole advertising and media sales pie has been hurting the profits of older, lower-tech content companies. About a decade ago, it became apparent that Silicon Valley was "front-running" Hollywood and eating their lunch. This is an attempt to reverse that trend.
The newspaper, sporting event, TV, and movie library companies went to their buddies at the EU and got GDPR passed which banned modern adtech under the guise of privacy and data nationalism. Now they've changed copyright law to place restrictions on social, search, and aggregators.
Might as well call it the FIFA Fucks FAANG Act of 2018.
- etatoby 8y agoThis is a very interesting point of view. They could be two products of the same lobbying interests, and they just manged to pass the most user-palatable one first.