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[–]HeyImSancho 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think this will ultimately blow up in their faces; as far as entertainment crap; which is huge to their money. As people have more access to the technology, we're already seeing things change. I recognize more youtubers, than supposed Hollywood 'celebrities'.

It's becoming easier, and easier to find people with talents to aid in creating awesome content, pick an arena, and there's someone a click away.

I could spin this another way, look at saidit, from reddit; the censoring happened, and presto, smart people, people with know how created an alternative. I've had previous forum experience, and all of it goes by the wayside at some point. It's not so much a question of if, but when at some point will saidit go?? I don't know, but I know people will find a way.

I'm not saying it's right, or optimal, but usually with conflicts, issues, and the like, perseverance does prevail.

[–]Mnemonic[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well the articles are meant for big platforms like all of google and facebook youtube.

The reasoning is facebook and youtube (easiest examples) are making money off of content users provide, but if a user uses (fair share) a (small) clip of a movie (which is fine) it's facebook and google that make a (potentially) a lot of money off of it while the orginal movie get's nothing.

Like if I made a song and you made a video using that song and I agreed on that, but we have to share the proffit a bit. Still facebook and google make money off of it. (for youtube you can say, heh enable ads etc, but google makes money off of it without ads (the basically seel their 'view time'. facebook is hard to get moneytised anyway)

That's how the Eu commision looks at it, and it's a directive, countries have to see how (and even if) they implement it. I would guess The netherlands stays a freehaven and might ven become a bigger crucial hub in the internet of europe because of it.