The EU’s new copyright law will have consequences for Europe. And what for what. Rarely before in recent history have made it the European Union, its institutions and the represented politicians, so many people in so short a time against the raise. And this time, the enfant terrible, the hoarse cawing duration are not Indignant, or are the victims of populists on the barricades.

no, this Time, it is precisely the open-minded and Internet-savvy part of the German population, the feel of the policy, deceived. There are just those people who could contribute in the future, the democratic institutions of the EU from the attacks of the authoritarian-minded Europe to protect haters. The willingness to do so is likely to be decreased with today’s adoption of the EU copyright law, however, dramatically. Not to say

it is clear the decision to the EU will cost the trust. Every Democrat needs to be able to live with defeats. It is incredible how this decision came about.

we Put ourselves briefly in the head of a youth, protesters who demonstrated last weekend, as tens of thousands of peers against the introduction of upload filters. Perhaps the Protest against “article 13” for it is the decisive experience of his political early socialization. What he has experienced so far aware of, when it comes to the Brussels policy?

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The truth is that these protesters was denied while the political existence. You were referred by leading European politicians of the Union as “Bots” or “Fake”, then later as a troublemaker and obstructionist branded. Daniel Caspary, CDU MEP from Baden-Württemberg, blusters in the newspaper “Bild”even “purchased from protesters”, the “would have, at least partially,” from the American large corporations money.

have not Yet covered even the social Democrats themselves with glory. The Minister of justice Katarina Barley is true in the EU-Council copyright reform, only to repair, then later – when the damage hardly was suddenly on the side of the opponents of Reform to emerge.

upload filter for “Nord Stream 2”?

And then there’s the incredible Episode, on Monday, the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” reported: Allegedly Chancellery chief Peter Altmaier, is said to have bought the French consent to the highly controversial gas pipeline “Nord Stream 2” with a German ‘ Yes ‘ to upload filters. Perhaps the Deal was on, so it gave it to then, internally, even as a negotiating success. But what must now think of those people who have gone in the past few weeks in the Wind and weather on the road: If your main political concern is hawked for approval of the economic flagship project of the infamous man-friend and crypto-Democrats Vladimir Putin?

Three months before the European elections emerged this Tuesday in Strasbourg as a political crop damage, the consequences of which are felt may be years and decades.

of Course, it could have been from the beginning objectively on the Reform entertain. There are even a couple of rational reasons to be for the EU copyright law. Article 18 (up to a few days ago: article 14) is to ensure the fair payment of creators. And there are a total of for the first time a European framework for effective copyright protection. This is not nothing.

Material exchange? It was not a long time

About the good reasons to be against it, it was already spoken often. Article 16 (formerly article 12) is likely to cost German artists and Creative people a lot of money, because you need to share in the future, may your royalties with the recyclers. And of course it goes to in article 17 (formerly article 13) in order to upload the filter. In the future, platforms will be required to the Upload of illegal to prevent content before it happens. This is only possible with Filters or with hundreds of Sweatshops where tens of thousands of inspectors, the views every day, millions of load transactions with own eyes, evaluate and sort out.

But on the factual exchange of arguments it has been going on for weeks. To blame especially those European politicians who do not have politically different thinking seriously, or even defamed. This was more than just a disruptive side to it. It was a cultural provocation.

Why the Protest was so big? Why did tens of thousands of people against a copyright reform on the road? Ultimately, the insults from Brussels were also an expression of a strangeness with the world of network-savvy people. Europe’s politicians had the protection of artists, rather, the star violinist or Opera singer in the head as the Instagram-Star or the Youtube Influencerin. New creative and production processes need a new way of Thinking in copyright law, wanted to many members, until the end, not in the head.

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of Course, the upload filter are not yet law, now is the time, the Federal government implemented into German law. However, even the CDU no longer would like to the actually. What is likely to remain for many Filter-opponents, especially one thought: the hope that the fundamental good-naturedness of the policy, is disappointed in the rule. And may all of us be no matter.