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Who are the companies behind these directives? Who are we fighting against?

• jansan 8y ago
  Probably German media "giants" like Springer and Bertelsmann. They don't get their shit done and are losing mind share each year, so they are panicking. However their influence on politics is still strong, therefore they can pull off stuff like that.
  • mrep 8y ago
    Probably since GDPR will decimate most targeted advertising based businesses, they need to find another way to make money. The natural solution are paywalls but those don't work since people end up just copying the content and pasting it elsewhere. Shit, even journalists themselves rip off each others stories, paraphrasing the whole thing and then linking back to the source website. It's so prevalent that hacker news even has a rule about posting the original link to a story.
    • mrep 8y ago
      Example copying and pasting paywalled article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18675496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18675496
  • repolfx 8y ago
    That's where the EU link/Google taxes started but this copyright directive seems to have gone far beyond tackling news linking, which was what Axel Springer and friends cared about. Is there still provision in it for Google to have to pay for linking to news sites? I am reading contradictory things here - some are saying that links are perfectly fine now.