This is very important:
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/

"Article 13 of the Copyright Directive will force internet platforms (social networks, video sites, image hosts, etc.) to install upload filters to monitor all user uploads for copyrighted content, including in images – and thus block most memes, which are usually based on copyrighted images.

(...)

It will come down to every single vote. (...) The NGO EDRi has made a list of key swing votes: https://edri.org/files/Copyright_JURI_MEPs_undecided.pdf."

This will affect #Fediverse.

I have sent e-mails to the MEPs. Have you?
https://juliareda.eu/2018/06/saveyourinternet/

Every e-mail counts. I know this, because years ago I was an activist fighting similar odds on the ground: http://rys.io/en/70

So send your e-mails, call your MEPs. Block Article 11 and Article 13 of the Copyright Directive.

Article 13 requires online platforms to filter content upon upload.

This is ridiculous - whether or not particular use of copyrighted content is legal tends to be a complicated matter, with years of court proceedings to establish that.

Expecing an algorithm to make a decision like this in a split second is asking for trouble.

#CopyrightDirective #Copyfraud

@rysiek Intellectual property is a joke and shouldn't be an idea enshrined in law in any form

@faissaloo well then you would not have copyleft licenses, and megacorps could just take any software and make it their own -- and there would be no way of forcing them to release the modified source code.

That means no OpenWRT, ever.

Careful what you whish for.

@rysiek It is a worthy sacrifice in order to attain true ownership of my hardware including the ability to legally do dirty-room reverse engineering, as far as I'm concerned copyleft is only a means to an end to spite the people who keep these laws alive.

@faissaloo this would create an even bigger imbalance of resources.

Megacorps would pour resources into their software (which we would have to reverse-engineer), and would just take what they want from the FOSS world.

FOSS world would have to do both reverse engineering and writing our own software,

I don't believe your suggestion would have the outcome you expect.

And copyleft already proved effective to have positive outcomes.

But we can have both -- rev-eng is partially legal in the EU.