European Union may pass law that could lead to this site being unusable

@CaptainXtra  
That is just odd

They think they rule the fucking world

@Selaphiel  
Arrogance gets to their head lol  
Not very lol, But still

@CaptainXtra  
I’ll treat that trade rumour as a rumour for now, Plus the deal will take a very long time due to imminent clashes with The EU

@CaptainXtra  
I’ve heard Rumors that France delayed A17 to next year and rumours that 6 more countries will join Poland  
Rumours rumours everywhere!!!

@Background Pony #78CA
 
I googled and couldn’t find anything about these rumors. But I found two sites that openly promote Article 13 (now Article 17) and try to change the public mood in favor of it, with a combination of lies and half-flanked arguments in the tone of “It won’t be so bad!”.
 
https://www.article13.de/
 
https://www.article13.org/
 
 
Something should be done about them.

@CMC Scootaloo  
“It won’t be that bad”
 
Is what they always say. Even when shit hits the fan.

@CMC Scootaloo  
One Twitter user perceived the US-UK trade deal sentence on better technologies to prevent infringement as A17 coming to America  
But we can’t fully trust one’s perception because the directive wasn’t directly mentioned in the document which dates back to February.

@CMC Scootaloo  
Well we don’t want big tech censoring them due to the current backlash against Big Tech going on around the world and that would hear things up.

@Background Pony #78CA
 
That has nothing to do with censoring the Internet. It’s about something completely else. Whoever said that is just panicking in the aftermath of the vote.

It’s 12:15 AM in Brussels  
The directive came into force 15 minutes ago  
Oh shit

@Background Pony #DC3A
 
Don’t panic again. There are bigger forces who will stop it.

@CMC Scootaloo  
Apathy is a bitch though

@Selaphiel
 
Freaking out would be a bigger one. If one is very concerned and wants to do something, it would be better to organize something productive against it.

@CMC Scootaloo  
Like Poland and a rumoured 6 other countries

@CaptainXtra  
Didn’t France just delay the directive a whole year?

@Background Pony #78CA  
That’s what I’ve heard so far.

@CaptainXtra  
Does it sound credible?

@Background Pony #78CA  
Well, the whole thing about France wanting to implement it earliest was somewhat of a rumor itself, while several signs supported that possibility, it was never confirmed dead on.
 
So this might be more likely if not outright confirmed publicly.
 
Time will tell.

@CaptainXtra  
So next year is most likely?

Sent this to the mods:  
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/eu-article-13-copyright-law

@CaptainXtra
 
The matter is a little more complex than that. No, it is much more complex, the more I think about it.  
Are Derpibooru’s servers located in a EU member state? If not, then the staff isn’t obliged to ban any users from Europe or to prevent them from uploading MLP: FiM fanart. Derpibooru, just as any other site on the Internet, only operates under the law of the country its servers are located in. If its servers aren’t in a EU country or if the staff would move servers into a country outside of the EU, Derpibooru can’t be bothered with anything.  
And that only goes if Hasbro even wants to cut off european users from MLP: FiM fanwork, which it doesn’t. Article 13/17 or not, the decision to demand money from sites that host copyright-protected content is still made by the copyright holder.  
Hasbro has always been fanwork friendly, so it will neither ask Derpibooru, nor FIMFiction to pay money.

@CMC Scootaloo  
The mods have said Derpi will be fine

@CaptainXtra  
I understand your concern  
But the mods said this site will be okay

The Article was somewhat outdated, so it’s not as much of an issue as I thought.