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European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

154 pointsby Brajeshwartoday at 4:07 PM31 commentsview on HN

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bradley13today at 5:15 PM

It's not just Europe. DMCA takedowns in the US: no liability for taking down innocent content.

Really, it comes down to this: censorship is bad. Always.

If someone violates the law, get a court judgement. With the judgement in hand, take down that specific material.

Too much work? Tough...

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throwa356262today at 4:18 PM

Such an obvious thing, should have been there from day 1.

The situation in Spain is particularly crazy. How can la liga have this much power over the Internet?

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throwawayffffastoday at 5:58 PM

It's their fault to begin with, they should have not caved to blocking anyone, they should have stood firm or offer up the 'Oh no we couldn't possibly figure out how to do that, it's entirely too complicated, you wouldn't understand.' excuse all other tech companies put out whenever they are told to do something trivial.

But hopefully this is the beginning of them growing a backbone.

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londons_exploretoday at 5:03 PM

The real damage from over blocking isn't a few customer service calls to the ISP or a couple of lost customers...

The real damage is the millions of hours of wasted time of the citizens of the nation.

croestoday at 6:12 PM

Absolutely.

No such power without consequences if abused.

Put some skin in the game

expo98today at 5:46 PM

I hope so, in Spain you can't access anything that uses Cloudflare, even docker images, thanks to LaLiga's president bullshit