You're describing the difference between the original Luddism that's against exploitation and the degenerate form that's just a blind hatred of new technology. Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of the latter on Lemmy.
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Copyright law is mostly bullshit, though.
So is a local newspaper supposed to be afraid of not complying aggressively enough with foreign laws from the whole world, or just the EU? The way I see it they're already doing more than is reasonably required by making a good faith effort to prevent people in the EU from accessing their site. Holding them responsible for people who deliberately bypass the blocking seems downright imperialist to me.
What exactly is the EU gonna do about a foreign site that does no business in the EU? They don't rule the world.
One example I know if is my hometown newspaper, dentonrc.com; I have a friend who moved to Europe and was annoyed that they geo-blocked him, but I can't really blame them. How many people are really gonna visit the site for a small American newspaper from the EU? From a business perspective it makes no sense for them to pay a developer to do more than the bare minimum.
I don't feel the need to get a case that would allow my phone to survive an incident that I wouldn't survive.
The legislators passing these laws are interested only in hurting people, getting bribes, and getting reelected so they can continue. Doing something important for society doesn't even factor into their decision making.
If you want us to take you seriously, shit talk your boss for us by name, and tell us your real name.
Cool, tell me more about what I really want, since you know me so well.
Too bad I usually hate being social.
Those are the places where I'd be most likely to want one.
IMHO being able to "control your creations" isn't what copyright was created for; it's just an idea people came up with by analogy with physical property without really thinking through what purpose is supposed to serve. I believe creators of intellectual "property" have no moral right to control what happens with their creations, and they only have a limited legal right to do so as a side-effect of their legal right to profit from their creations.