Article 13 and Article 11
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 6:17 am
So, what do you guys here think about the controversial articles of the new European Union copyright law? Honestly, I don't know much about them, but I am terrified by the idea that there will be more copyright laws on the Internet. Internet has always been hindered by the copyright laws. If the copyright laws didn't exist, a simple truth is, there would have been no Browser Wars that made web-development so hellish in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Almost all the innovation in the Internet technologies comes from the free and open-source browsers such as Chrome and Firefox. Proprietary browsers "protected" by the copyright laws, such as Internet Explorer, can't even catch up with the innovation, yet alone innovate something. To understand the extent of that effect, consider the PacMan game I've made. It runs in almost all open-source browsers from the Internet Explorer 9-era, yet it fails to run in any version of Internet Explorer until Internet Explorer 11, and even there the animation is somewhat broken. And we will try to enforce the copyright laws even more? When will we learn the lesson?
Many people are worried about FaceBook leaving the European Union because of those new laws. Honestly, I wouldn't care, I think FaceBook is using its popularity to enforce its beliefs upon other people (and it banned me when I expressed my genocide revisionism views on it a few years ago). However, I am worried how will the web-hosting companies deal with the new laws. The only free web-hosting available in China today is GitHub Pages, and it doesn't support any server-side scripting (not even for comments or highscores). Will the same become true in the European Union?
Many people are worried about FaceBook leaving the European Union because of those new laws. Honestly, I wouldn't care, I think FaceBook is using its popularity to enforce its beliefs upon other people (and it banned me when I expressed my genocide revisionism views on it a few years ago). However, I am worried how will the web-hosting companies deal with the new laws. The only free web-hosting available in China today is GitHub Pages, and it doesn't support any server-side scripting (not even for comments or highscores). Will the same become true in the European Union?