[toyg]

To people getting their knickers in a twist: Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Portugal, with all due respect, are hardly beacons of anti-copyright maximalism. Chances are that most of them simply couldn't be arsed to write the relevant laws, over a timespan that included such facetious events as a 2-year-long global pandemic. If I had to prioritize lawmaking, I would also put some copyright bullshit at the bottom of the pile. Now they got their ears pinched, so they'll come around doing it - or not, in which case they'll pay a fine.

[paol]

In the case of Portugal I can confirm you are correct - the non-compliance is due to legislative incompetence, not dissent.

[manicdee]

Perhaps playing dumb is the favoured form of dissent.

[erie]

Thanks to Google, Facebook, Microsoft top EU lobbying spending - study https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/The%...

[avtolik]

True. Also a lot of other EU countries are being sued for not transposing other sets of laws. I think almost every EU country is being sued for something like this.

[hungryforcodes]

More countries leaving the EU? It's not supposed to be a hostile union is it?

[iakov]

You can’t be serious. After the clusterfuck of brexit other countries will be very, very careful even thinking about leaving. And if some country decides to leave the union it wont be over a inconsequential fine and lawsuit.

[hungryforcodes]

The problem in Brexit was execution.

[edgyquant]

> the clusterfuck of brexit

The “clusterfuck” was due to the EU becoming hostile and super forced in the media.

[toyg]

And totally not due to the UK Foreign Secretary declaring they wouldn't abide to the terms of what they were going to sign anyway. Uh-uh.