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by deogeo 2684 days ago
> don't bother calling a lawyer or legal expert to ask what the legislation means

You would do well to take your own advice. Explanation on how those articles effectively mandate filters and a link tax: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/

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The website you link to doesn't explain anything with evidence either. All I see are assertions. For example

> In addition, all but very few sites (those both tiny and very new) will need to do everything in their power to prevent anything from ever going online that may be an unauthorised copy of a work that a rightsholder has registered with the platform. They will have no choice but to deploy upload filters, which are by their nature both expensive and error-prone.

Why will they have no choice but to deploy upload filters? Why are new/tiny sites exempt?