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Is Donny Two Burgers fat fingering the interwebs?
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Only if he accidentally linked to Wikipedia to find out more on that porn actress he just watched.
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Not optimistic about this, only one of my MEPs wrote back to say he opposes it (the others didn’t even respond). However, i wasn’t optimistic about things like SOPA or net neutrality but we (sorta) won those. Though we lost the snooper’s charter big time so… 
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Bah.
He’s a few sesame seeds short of a bun.
His lettuce is limp.
His patties are neither rare nor well-done.
He’s got too much cheese, not enough special sauce.
His beef can’t even get off the ground.
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Hmm…
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The current model is an unregulated mess; it eats into the business of legitimate journalism with free online access cannibalising existing paid for product. Journalists have to eat and pay the rent.
Is this proposal workable? Does it define fair-use clearly and protect it? No and no. An ambiguous regime has been created with the potential for significant financial penalties. Brussels has created a monster. This is an important issue which could well test just how responsive the democratic elements of the European Union are.
I’ve previously said there is an argument for news providers to have a separate domain system from which some content could be provided free (and linkable). The rest, available to net users on some form of better-regulated subscription, would help balance the books. This would then be the starting point from which quid pro quo arrangements for user comment / feedback / fair use etc could be made.
And the internet is overloaded with junk, and it’s past time for a good spring-clean (be careful what you wish for).
In one interview, 8 Croatian MEPs said that they will vote against it, while the other 3 still haven’t decideed. I hope other countries will also vote like this. https://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/novosti/svijet/clanak/id/554238/je-li-pred-nama-crni-cetvrtak-eu-ovoga-tjedna-odlucuje-o-kontroverznoj-direktivi-koja-bi-nepovratno-mogla-unistiti-internet-kakav-poznajemo
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From that POV, the proposed cure is worse than the disease. In Germany, the “link tax” has cost newspaper publishers way more in legal fees than it ever earned them in copyright royalties.
And anyway, it’s not as if any of that extra money would ever go to the journalists, other than by way of “we won’t be firing you today”. No journalist is likely to be able to afford yummier food or a larger abode based on all the extra money that their publisher won’t be paying them.
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Not everything that is unregulated is a “mess” or needs regulating.
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The current model came about because nearly everybody bet on the “free through advertising” model. This has been a bad bet, offering your customers up to someone else for manipulating and farming is bound to bring up resentment of that business model.
Ad-blockers came in as a way to signal disagreement with this model and withdraw from it. Now you are saying the internet makes it impossible for journalism to work? Without any laws to protect them? Maybe they need to look at a different business model first?
There are plenty of alternatives to the advertisement model, you can do micro payments (pay per article), subscriptions (to a single outlet or a family of outlets), flat-fee all you can eat (like Spotify or Netflix), a hybrid of these or something different altogether. Only now are we seeing tentative experiments with some of these. Why did this take so long?
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… aand the German language Wikipedia could not even get their ass up and show a banner. Why am I not fucking surprised. 
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The directive’s been voted down:
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It’s an important victory, but alas ‘voted down’ is too strong. This vote means the Parliament will debate the offending clauses. Without this vote, the whole Directive would have been a straight up or down vote, and since it’s a broad piece of legislation with lots of stakeholders, it will almost certainly pass. Today’s vote means that we get a chance to excise these articles before that happens.
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Agree. Newspaper publishers as a body would do well to put their houses in order and define solutions as a body rather than hide behind the cloak of regulation
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For me, the French Wikipedia site is completely normal. No banner, no layer, nothing different at all…
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Don’t forget non-profit and donor-supported outlets. Propublica is a pretty superb model for real-ass journalism.
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