After LaLiga accidentally shut down Cloudflare and Vercel in Spain (LaLiga Piracy Blocks Randomly Take Down huge innocent segments of internet with no recourse or warning, slammed as “Unaccountable Internet Censorship”) and the Italian Privacy Shield shut down Google Drive in Italy (Massive expansion of Italy’s Piracy Shield underway despite growing criticism of its flaws and EU illegality) as well as many other innocent IP addresses in the name of combating illegal online streaming, the EU has launched a feedback initiative. Considering how the DMCA in the US has been weaponised, leading to all kinds of non-valid takedowns that are very hard to fight (see here for examples) I really don’t want to see the EU take the path of being in the pocket of big corporations with unchecked powers to censor the internet. Take the time to respond to this!
The Commission Recommendation of 4 May 2023 on combating online piracy of sports and other live events encourages Member States and relevant stakeholders to take effective, appropriate and proportionate measures to combat unauthorised retransmissions of such events.
Robin Edgar
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