If you’re tired of cancel culture and censorship subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The Entertainment industry and other powerful copyright holders are looking for ways to tighten the screws around Big Tech and their response to piracy even more, as they continue the seemingly endless struggle against such content. In order to preserve their safe harbor status under DMCA, companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter swiftly react to takedown requests, even though this system is also often abused through false claims.
However, all this is not enough for the rights holder “cartel” and they are trying to push the giants to move towards not merely reacting, but anticipating infringement proactively – i.e., implementing upload filters that would flag content before it’s ever published by third parties on their platforms. As with the current takedown system, this one is also vulnerable to abuse that can easily produce a variety of harms, including suppression of free speech. In addition, as the huge controversy over EU’s Copyright Directive and this bloc’s intention to introduce upload filters showed last year, this is also expensive. Whether for that or other reasons, tech giants were in the past unhappy with that proposed solution to curb […]
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