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Interestingly, a study launched by European Commission came to the conclusion, that online piracy doesn't cause any damage: https://netzpolitik.org/2017/eu-komm
by karlkloss 3y ago
Interestingly, a study launched by European Commission came to the conclusion, that online piracy doesn't cause any damage: https://netzpolitik.org/2017/eu-kommission-versteckte-unbequeme-piraterie-studie-zwei-jahre-vor-der-oeffentlichkeit/ https://netzpolitik.org/2017/eu-kommission-versteckte-unbequ...
- fsflover 3y agoRelated discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701785 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701785.
- pelorat 3y agoThis silliness is lobbyist driven.
- fsflover 3y agoIf you want to fight against it, consider supporting https://edri.org https://edri.org, which lobbies for the people, not corporations.
- mistrial9 3y agono, it is a cover for all-the-time passive record keeping for all network activity. Similar to roads, license+checkpoints => control.
- goethes_kind 3y agoSuperfluous when talking about the European Commission. That's literally all they do. Should be called the Business Lobby instead.
- pubkeypvtkey 3y agoI wish I could take the general public more sincerely and seriously, but their continued existence within learned helplessness, braying like goats stuck in mud rather than… you know… getting off their asses trying something else… really just makes the public look like disingenuous phony’s and gold diggers. Reminder: none of us have an obligation to you specifically. Be the change you want to see in the world… or stfu If your only idea is parrot populist news propaganda just stfu
- dav_Oz 3y agoI've heard a joke somewhere, I'm paraphrasing: If European taxpayers could directly offer all the lobbyists residing in Brussels double the money for not doing what they are being paid for, now, it would be one of the most profitable things and by far and large the greatest deed for all its citizens. As it stands now the cost of rigging especially in the EU is extraordinarily cheap and effective.
- TheRealDunkirk 3y agoI've been saying the same thing about the US for years. The true hell of it isn't that we have naked corruption in the form of unlimited PAC-driven campaign contributions, it's that you can buy races for relatively so little.
- euroderf 3y agoYes, the ROI is superb.
- bigbacaloa 3y agoUnfortunately the consequences aren't silly. No more scihub will be a problem.
- suddenclarity 3y agoThat's an incorrect summary of the report.
- dingledork69 3y agoGo on.
- fsflover 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35702258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35702258
- realusername 3y agoLike any serilus study before during the past 30 years came to exact the same conclusions, it's not a surprise, those laws are drafted by lobbyists.