The European Union Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market will, if passed into an EU directive forcing member states to enact laws within 24 months, force sites allowing the public to post content to implement upload filters to detect copyrighted material. That's because the new law would make the sites legally responsible for copyright violations by user-uploaded content. For one thing, that will make fair use impossible because there exist no filters that can tell fair use from plagiarism.
The only exemption is for sites that have 1) existed less than three years, 2) have an annual turnover of less than €10 million, and 3) have less than 5 million unique monthly visitors. Hmm. That's every single Steem front end. Steem itself is not even a site. It's a public blockchain that does not exist under a single jurisdiction. While centralized sites hosting user-generated content will be mired in controversy and user outrage, Steem front ends will be completely unaffected.
The European Parliament will vote on the bill tomorrow and on next Thursday. Steem stands to benefit from the trouble caused to traditional centralized social media, at least in the short term. We live in interesting times.
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Yeah, I watched the videos as well in the past. In some cases the law is a good thing, because I noticed that some people just steal my videos and upload them to their channel and they are making money out of it.. I think that's a bad thing! But probably it wouldn't work on Steemit because everybody knows me haha, so people could easily figure out if I am the real "melissa" or not and do not upvote it. Which is a good thing! On Youtube is different, it's really fucked up and I do think we need some kind of law to regulate the space. Hope that they are not fucking it up...
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Have you reported such instances to YouTube? Existing copyright laws should be enough for you to threaten anyone distributing and monetizing your videos without permission with legal action.
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Hey 😊
Sorry for the late reply but I was thinking about it... and in some way I thought that it would be a good idea because I thought that people might Google my name and find my channel.. because it is still my video... 🤔
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That's a good point. I wonder what would happen to blockchains if this law goes into effect. Will they try to pass some kinda "anti-blockchain / anti-decentralization" law instead?
Or, will they do something really stupid and try to fine every node-mainter / block-miner thousands of dollars xD
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That's always a risk. And if a blockchain were under a single jurisdiction, it could be completely shut down by the authorities quite easily. But there are about 200 sovereign states in the world, which form politically opposing blocs or otherwise have vastly differing opinions about everything. Good luck shutting down a borderless network operating in dozens of countries all over the world.
When Steem gets migrated from Chainbase that is a heavy user of expensive RAM onto a SSD-reliant software (a work in progress), running a full node will become much cheaper than it currently is. What that means is that there will be Steem nodes all over planet. Steem will become financially much less vulnerable and virtually indestructible by authorities. With VPN services anyone can continue to use it from anywhere.
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Yes, a properly decentralised blockchain becomes impossible to shut down. Low costs of running nodes is key.
That is why EOS (with super expensive block producers) is a bad model and Steem is heading down the right path.
You are also quite right to point to jurisdictional competition. Decentralised blockchains, including cryptocurrencies bring great competitive advantage to those countries that embrace them. Those that do not will be left behind.
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With desktop clients and VPNs any blockage is easy to go around. But you can forget about mainstreaming at that point at least in those countries where said certain IP addresses are blocked.
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True! Interesting times ahead for both internet-users & law-makers alike.
For our freedom, privacy, and fair use sake, Web3.0 can't come fast enough ;^)
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Would steemit.com come under this law imminently? Was the steemit.com site launched at the same time as the blockchain or a month or two afterwards?
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Steemit.com is almost as old as the blockchain.
Steemit.com is owned by an American company, Steemit Inc. Its servers are in the USA. EU directives mandate EU member states to enact national laws that implement them. EU member states have no jurisdiction over Steemit Inc whatsoever. That said, large tech companies such as YouTube or Facebook naturally care a great deal about laws in effect in EU member states because they have servers in those states, which fall under their jurisdiction.
As far as I know, the new copyright laws do not mandate internet service providers to block sites that do not have algorithmic copyright filtering. So, Steemit Inc or any Steem front end that operates outside of the EU has nothing to worry about.
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i heard about that couple of days ago
so after this news i'm sure steemcleaners will work harder to clean all copyrighted content
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The thing is that @steemcleaners can only demonetize copyrighted content and reduce its visibility on some front ends such as Steemit by flagging it. But it can never be removed from the blockchain unless 17 out of the 20 top witnesses agree to do a hard fork, that is, make a new chain without that information and throw away the old one. A hardfork is something that nobody wants to do without extraordinarily good reasons. You can rest assured that some copyrighted text (Steem does not store binary files) will not trigger a hardfork.
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Agree with you, at least they do something better than nothing
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Thanks for sharing!! Very interesting!
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That why we need decentralizion without central point of failure!
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