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> Your ability to self-host is not affected at all. Phew, I thought I'd misread it So the law doesn't "make it illegal to use clips of a movie in critiquing i

• _ph_ 8y ago
  > > Your ability to self-host is not affected at all. > Phew, I thought I'd misread it > So the law doesn't "make it illegal to use clips of a movie in critiquing it". Not more or less than before. But you won't be able to find a platform for doing so, unless you self-host. > > In the end, even hacker news probably becomes unavailable in Europe. If a user would paste a newspaper article into a comment, hacker news could be sued for this copyright violation. > It's already illegal for HN to host copyright material. Yes, but so far, they only had to remove it, when they got a complaint. Now they bear the full liability for the copyright violation. So it is the same game as with file sharing: value of the material times the number of downloads, so we are easily talking about claims in the range of millions.
  • isostatic 8y ago
    > Not more or less than before. But you won't be able to find a platform for doing so, unless you self-host. Sounds like a gap in the market then. > Yes, but so far, they only had to remove it, when they got a complaint. Kim Dot Com hosted infringing material and had far more serious impact than "had to remove it"