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Article 13 and how this will change SFT

Started by Towelie, Mar 26, 2019, 02:55 PM

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Towelie

Sadly, Article 13 has passed.
https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/515535-article-13-passed-european-parliament-meme-ban
What this means - I, and specifically myself (as I own the domain superfuntime.org) am solely responsible for anything anyone uploads from now on.
And responsible as in legally. I can literally go to jail for some random user uploading a pirated movie/music video on our forums.

Now, obviously, this will affect small business owners and small communities like us the most, as in order to comply, you have to spend thousands of dollars developing a "Content filter" that will scan every uploaded file and check whether it is copyrighted or not.

What does this mean for SFT?
- I don't know how this affects us currently. The website was recently moved to Canada, so we are no longer hosted in the european union, but apparently, as long as it is accesible by EU users, it is still my responsibility.
- After this is oficially in effect (it was voted today), I will have to do one of the following things:
- Block access to anyone in the EU
OR
- Disable any file uploads and embeds (this means no more image embeds, no more forum signatures, no more nothing.

Until this is clarified and we decide which path to choose (probably the second), please be aware that uploading any sort of copyrighted content on SFT forums is now against the rules and punishable by 1st time: revoking your posting privileges and 2nd time: a forum ban.
This includes embeds of youtube videos of music/movies/etc.

NOTE: This applies for the forums/website/on the game servers. This does not apply to Discord.


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Miricx

EU following the footsteps of china
congrats dipshits

boy arent UK happy for leaving EU now

GRIMI_

It doesn't come into effect until 2021, and I would imagine due to its unpopularity anyone up for election in the upcoming EU elections will run with appealing it as a campaign promise. I would hope that it is put to an appeal vote. (just like brexit hehehe)

George

Uk is still effected and don't block Europe that will kill half of the users lol
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