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The point wasn’t if the laws are compatible with DMCA or not but that we had the ability to influence them.

If you as a Swedish person are blaming the US for Pirate Bay then you are wrong you have had full control over your copyright laws and enforcement and some of it is actually stricter than in the US.

I’ve also that the EU will deputize the giants not that they’ll block services to the EU resulting in even more consolidation and less freedom for EU residents.

In fact that is the expectation of many MEPs.

Combined with a government run one stop shop for data accesss like those that already exist in some EU countries the actual prospects of GDPR can be quite dystopian.

People would say that it would be better than it’s now and that companies would stop abusing your information but I have no doubt that the existing business models will not differ even in the slightest the only thing that would differ is your ability to compete and operate within a free market.