There's a ton of buzz about this right now among high profile content creators.

This legislation doesn't deal with the gambling industry per-se, but rather is a blanket law that would impact the EU.

https://twitter.com/YTCreators/statu...13559395766274

https://9to5google.com/2018/11/13/yo...-eu-copyright/

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/what...ained-meme-ban

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct..._Single_Market

Should the title not say EU Article 13? - Can we get this changed?

+1

My mistake for the incorrect title.

maybe u could have cliffed what article 13 is? Not that I care tho, 'murica

It's a very strict law meant to combat copyright infringement. It shifts the burden of enforcement from rights holders to website hosts. It also holds hosts fully liable for any copyrighted material that gets posted, even if user-submitted.

YouTube's CEO has recently said that complying with this would be financially impossible. More than 300 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. It can't all be manually reviewed. Right now, it's up to the rights holder to find infringement of their content on YouTube and report it. YouTube then removes it, and is in the clear. But with the burden shifted, it's YouTube's responsibility to detect it the moment it gets uploaded, and somehow determine if the uploader has rights to the content.

tl;dr - More websites are going to shut off access to Europe because of another silly tech law.

In murica Pokerstars is banned. In the UK Pokerstars is not only allowed you don't have to pay taxes on the money you win. But in the UK Youtubes is going to get banned lol. K.
Special interests completely run the freest places in the world.

Instead of shutting off access to Europe, why not just base themselves in a jurisdiction that doesn't give a flying **** what European laws say?

I changed title. Hope that is okay.

wow, so basically I should be buy a **** ton of stock in companies that offer VPN services, heh.

Many of the large websites currently blocking EU users due to GDPR (data privacy law) are already based outside of the EU. I guess it's just not worth the risk.

4chan will be new meta

In b4 EU government approved VPN services only allowed for EU citizens.

Isn't huge majority of theses websites some U.S. news sites what get 90-99% it traffic from non EU countries? Would think Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune have nothing much to loose blocking EU citizens anyway, probably like 5 EU citizens ever visit their website.

I expect some get more non-US traffic than you think, but you might still be right because the value of that traffic would likely be lower to their advertisers.

It's definitely an attitude some took, though, and more will take it here as well. I've posted before that we had to change ad servers when the GDPR came into effect, because our previous ad server decided to just go ahead and stop serving ads to any European visitors; I guess most of their customers' traffic was non-EU. Our traffic is only a little over 50% US, so that wasn't going to work for us.