The EU's Copyright Directive charm offensive pats Europeans on the head and tells them leave it up to the corporations

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/16/nothing-to-see-here.html

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[heh]

It’s so tiresome to contact lawmakers again. And again. Sigh…

I’m afraid the lobbyists will have the longer endurance here, they just keep at it till everybody is so bored with the topic they’ll zone out.

[Boundegar]

You would be more persistent if you were getting paid.

Remember pre-internet world? Maybe we’ll just go back to that - musicians busking, lovers meeting in bars, people with hammers building things. Then all that will be left is Disney and BMI, and they’ll be okay with that, until one day somebody says, “hey, what if my PC could talk to your PC…?”