> making cameras illegal because people take photos and record videos of copyrighted material. It's not like there are no better alternatives. Instead of makin

> making cameras illegal because people take photos and record videos of copyrighted material. It's not like there are no better alternatives. Instead of making it illegal, just setup a fee and a distribution scheme. In Germany, we do pay some additional fee (0.5€?) on usb-sticks, printers and hard drives, etc, because those things could be used to copy copyrighted material. These fees go directly to associations that represent copyright holders, like GEMA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA_(German_organization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA_(German_organization) ). This happens since forever. So there is already precedent for blanket-regulation of and compensation for possible use/misuse of copyrighted material. In fact, this is what some people proposed as a kind of reasonable alternative to the Upload filters of the EU Copyright directive ("Article 13" and so on) I'm noticing that this is not really a coherent argument, more of a braindump, sorry.