On Wednesday, the EU will vote on whether to force all online platforms
to filter user-generated content against massive databases of
copyrighted works (anyone can add anything to these databases, without
penalties for abuse); not only is this a catastrophe for everyone who
writes software that will have to comply with this bonkers idea, it’s
also a catastrophe for anyone who writes software, period.
That’s because the rules will include copyright filtering for shared
code in online repositories. Algorithmically determining whether a code
fragment infringes copyright is, of course, impossible, but it will
nevertheless be mandatory.
Github is leading the charge against this, and in an excellent post, they explain what developers need to do about this (hint, visit Save Your Internet).
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