SWAPD is a trusted middleman service dedicated to offering our users the safest way to buy, sell, or trade items and services of virtual nature. SWAPD opens doors for you to earn and rise to fame in the digital universe by connecting you with vast network of buyers, sellers, and opportunities.
With the new EU regulations platforms like FB and Instagram will be responsible that no copyrighted contents are uploaded by people who do not have these copyrights. Since many of the pages sold here are heavy copyright violators, who do not care at all about the property of others, this may lead to a giant purge, much bigger than everything we have seen before.
While there are a lot of concerns around this (especially with regard to internet freedom), this also means a boost to publishers who create quality content on their own instead of stealing from others.
Google has been particularly critical of the law, which threatens to impact the business model of its video sharing service YouTube and news aggregation platform Google News.
Not sure if I fully understand this directive, but I will throw my two cents in anyway.
If this actually goes through (it still needs to be ratified by ministers at the Council of Europe), Google is in for some bad times ahead. In the past months I hardly even visit other sites, because Google snips the most important content out of every website in the world and gives me an answer right on Google.com. This also falls under this reform. So, in my opinion, that’s one positive thing that this new law may bring to an end (positive for webmasters). The bad thing is smaller sites will have to implement upload filters, don’t remember if the requirement was one or ten million page views per month. If one, then SWAPD will probably have to get an upload filter soon This is bad because content filters aren’t calendar apps. They’re complicated and expensive. Also, webmasters will be responsible for the user generated content on their website. Another bad thing is all the abuse this thing will open. Basically, it will be like fighting for video rights on YouTube, except it will be world-wide and for every content. And we all know how crappy the YouTube world is. There are companies set up who nab rights to every video (unrightfully) and then try to collect on them. These tactics may spill over to this new directive, if it comes to life.
Nothing will change for you, if you read you alowed upload memes/gifs… that you don’t own, the big problem is for facebook/youtube not for small person.
Example
You upload video that you don’t own, lets say game tutorial, if it’s found youtube will pay fine for that cause they alowed such matterial to appear(you can’t make game stream there alot of them right now cause you don’t own the game you need to take contract for each game you stream from game company), the problem here how they will control each video or post dosen’t violate any rule(it’s impossible cause you can write status a quaue from song and it’s don’t allowed…
Doubt it. They said the same thing with GDPR, that the world would end, that there is no chance that Facebook/IG/social networks can comply with the directive. Well, that was a lie, these services are still up, if anything, the GDPR gave more rights to users over their data.
They have problem now cause for each post someone upload let’s say sence from movie to ig they will pay fine, the question here if it will proffitable for them if they earn lets say 100M from users from europe the the fine will be 50M they are in profit they will continue to work but if it will be not profitable they will close, how they can control each post dosen’t violate any rule ? don’t think the algorithems can detect each sound/each photo/ each quate…
That’s true. But I have to agree with EU (and Spain) that Google shouldn’t use snipplets from other sites. Like I’ve said before, I hardly visit sites anymore when I look for information as 60% of the time I get everything I need in their infinite-scroll snippet section. We’re basically feeding a monster with free info while they profit and at the same time use their dominate position to deindex you anytime they see fit. Someone needs to stop that and take them back a few notches.
But websites allow such snippet’s they don’t take it automaticlly you need to appeal to google news to appear there, if you talk about apearing in the search engine you can also turn in off then you will not appear in google at all. I know there many problems like why most revenue go to them and not to content owner, but no one forse you to use google/youtube yes there no alternative for let’s say google play and ios but such law dosen’t make competition, they don’t made law that google have very big market share and will create few companies to compite with google…
They only say oh let’s make to the eu pocket some money from them, there no any technological backup for that, they just throw words in the air. The biggest problem now days that apple/google/amazon… become bigger and influencer and no one care. They only care about there pocket , they don’t told that eveyone that you will get the money for your copyright the eu goverment will get the money
the real question is how will this be enforced. Will companies have to find the content and file a DMCA type claim to someone then wait for months as one video goes through a process? Then how much is the fine is it the potential loss in revenue?
Companies will be responsible to either obtain licenses for the content or to filter all contents that are copyright violations. Many think this is only possible through automated filters that will delete a ton of “good content” as well and be a risk for internet freedom. Countries could also exploit the new directive for censorship purposes. We know from GDPR that big companies like google and fb took action to become compliant. They will as well now.
For us my assumptions are:
Pages grown through copyright infringements will be deleted at large scale…not 2600…more 260000.
Original pages will have more reach soon because of all the “bad” pages that are deleted
This is bad because content filters aren’t calendar apps. They’re complicated and expensive. Also, webmasters will be responsible for the user generated content on their website. Another bad thing is all the abuse this thing will open. Basically, it will be like fighting for video rights on YouTube, except it will be world-wide and for every content. And we all know how crappy the YouTube world is. There are companies set up who nab rights to every video (unrightfully) and then try to collect on them. These tactics may spill over to this new directive, if it comes to life.