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		wvenable on March 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: European Parliament approves copyright reform No, this law changes nothing. But also hosting your own changes nothing. You can ignore a DMCA takedown but maybe your host won't. And from my experience, hosts don't care that much -- they'd rather toss you than deal with legal issues.

isostatic on March 27, 2019 [–]

Use a host that ignores the DMCA -- why would a bad american law apply to the majority of the internet?

Now that americans are realising that other countries exist, and make laws like the DMCA, maybe they'll stop doing it.

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