5 ms·
this paves the way to make archiving illegal, is that what germany wants?
by nektro 3y ago
this paves the way to make archiving illegal, is that what germany wants?
- blooalien 3y agoIt's what our corporate overlords and their pet politicians want, and they ain't gonna stop fighting until George Orwell spins in his grave, and prolly not even then.
- carrotcarrot 3y agoWe already had mass censorship of wrongthink on social media coerced by federal agencies. This is petty by comparison and Orwell has been spinning for years now.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoTo control the future, control the present; to control the present, control the past...
- em-bee 3y agoworse, it's about making download tools illegal, even if the download itself is legitimate.
- Pulcinella 3y agoIts basically the VCR recording uSA Supreme Court case all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....
- mrguyorama 3y agoYeah but for some reason in the 90s American Judges decided to throw that whole "justice for everyone" thing out the window and now explicitly empower ONLY certain giant rightsholders to have any rights. I'm waiting for a judge to accept an argument that web browsers should be illegal because they allow you to look at infringing content.
- account42 3y ago> I'm waiting for a judge to accept an argument that web browsers should be illegal because they allow you to look at infringing content. You wouldn't circumvent web integrity checks, would you?
- sigmar 3y agoThere's even a filter on youtube for searching for 'creative commons' content. This ruling seems to make it very difficult to download that content (explicitly intended to be shared and remixed) and illegal to work on software that makes it easier.
- croes 3y agoIt is even more perverse. There is a right to private copying, you pay additional fees for media such as CDs, DVDs and USB sticks, but it is illegal to circumvent copy protection for copying.