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What's you definition of a content farm? This bill essentially targets online online medium you can upload and share content on. This should be reworded to the EU is serious and wants to go back to Web 1.0

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Maybe that's not a bad thing. Most of the policies that have emerged from the EU and US recently would mostly affect the users of large platforms like YouTube and Facebook. If content creators were to host content on a website they own, they would have complete control (well mostly, the web host would be responsible too, but that worked pretty well before) over their content and what they can and can't share.

I agree, kind of. My projection for a future with stricter copyright laws is a rise of or at least stronger development of subcultures that produce their own content which slips under the filter radar because of non-mainstream memes and references. Also more poeople will be attracted by subcultures because the mainstream becomes more regulated and boring as nobody will be able to freely mix and advertise it. Though what would really happen is that the media industry will be able to exert more control over influencers and we get sth. like a TV 2.0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q&t=1s

This does a very good job of explaining how small content creators are practically powerless now on the web in terms of protecting their content being stolen.

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