Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20181106011917/@comment-37387872-20190401144353

NecroxTK wrote: The end of the internet as we all know it, Deasture... I don't know if the rest of the world (outside EU) will be able to adapt out of this bullshit, or if the whole western internet domains will embrace it... Dear fucking gawd, what a disgrace. Seriously, have you actually read anything from the actual Directive yourself, or did you only absorb hearsay and the crazy claims peddled by Google, the campaigns it is funding, and a bunch of activists? You'd know immediately this was an April Fools joke otherwise as:

- Article 13 does not include any provisions for criminal charges to users of a platform

- any hypothetical filter would have to rely on a claim and information by DMM/Kadokawa, who would have to want to have this material removed from this platform in the first place (A13.8)

- unlike the current status quo, A13 actually gives users not only a right to appeal, move to arbitration, or even sue the platform before courts, it also establishes a responsibility to ensure that works exempted from copyright to remain available (A13.5 and A13.8)

- this platform does not fulfil the criteria for A13 to apply (Annex 37a, definition on targeted services)

- A13 is not yet law in any single EU country anyways

Not sure it's funny that this wiki joins in spreading political misinformation, indirectly driving a corporate agenda...