The EU's new copyright filters will be catastrophic for the web, but they're going to be even worse for your favourite game

[timstellmach]

@Shuck

@doctorow

Raising the table stakes for starting a competitor to Blizzard is a surefire way to crush any competition to the current giants of the games industry, and mandatory filter rules will kill mom-and-pop Minecraft hosting and other small players.

So it’s the fans that will get hosed - as sites like Moddb that host mods would be impossible, if they’re responsible for making sure there’s no copyrighted content.

To the extent that healthy fan communities are good for the game’s producers, it’s not just the fans that will get hosed.