Has the EU just killed the internet as we know it?

[Rev. Rye]

I think that it's DailyMotion that'll be more effected by Article 13 than YouTube. Remember, YouTube is based out California, which isn't really beholden to the rules of the EU. DailyMotion, however, is based out of Paris, and will likely suffer for it once Article 13 goes into effect.

Besides, YouTube doesn't need new laws as an excuse for frivolous copyright strikes on smaller channels, since literally anyone can get copyright claimed for literally anything even if the claimant doesn't even own the item claimed:



People have gotten copyright claims on YouTube for:

• uploading videos of themselves playing public domain classical pieces on the piano because some label decided it was one of their own recordings.
  
• a 10-hour video of white noise, which was claimed by five different people (who, bizarrely, claimed specific segments of between 41 seconds and 6 minutes' length). Indeed, another video which was 52 hours of rain sounds, had the same exact thing happen to it.
  
• The sound of chirping birds in the background of a video where a guy went into the woods to prepare ingredients for a wild salad.
  
• Indeed, I have even heard tales of some copyright holders filing DMCA takedowns on videos they themselves uploaded. I have heard that the first time The Beatles had their own VEVO channel, the people responsible for uploading them filed takedowns on their own videos..
  

The man who's responsible for that video about Youtube is most known for reviewing cartoons, and he's had a lot of issues with copyright holders who don't understand fair use, and has made several videos about how people have abused the system, not only with dubious strikes against his own videos, which, being reviews that use edited clips that are frequently talked over specifically to comment on the original clip (and flaws in the larger work), would seem to be clearly transformative, and thus, fall under fair use, but some of the more mindless and arbitrary claims that I described above.