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by ocdtrekkie 2629 days ago
Copyright holders want this to work (as a repeal of the directive would be a far, far worse scenario), and will likely be more than willing to work with anyone who aims to make it work.
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well yeah, but do they want it bad enough that I can go to all of the licensers and tell them "give me all your content for a small cost so I can fingerprint it and build a content identifier" ?

Old businesses have shown time and again they are unable to understand what's good for them if it moves from the way it was always done (some, at least).