> Your ability to self-host is not affected at all.
Phew, I thought I'd misread it
So the law doesn't "make it illegal to use clips of a movie in critiquing it".
> In the end, even hacker news probably becomes unavailable in Europe. If a user would paste a newspaper article into a comment, hacker news could be sued for this copyright violation.
It's already illegal for HN to host copyright material.
> > Your ability to self-host is not affected at all.
> Phew, I thought I'd misread it
> So the law doesn't "make it illegal to use clips of a movie in critiquing it".
Not more or less than before. But you won't be able to find a platform for doing so, unless you self-host.
> > In the end, even hacker news probably becomes unavailable in Europe. If a user would paste a newspaper article into a comment, hacker news could be sued for this copyright violation.
> It's already illegal for HN to host copyright material.
Yes, but so far, they only had to remove it, when they got a complaint. Now they bear the full liability for the copyright violation. So it is the same game as with file sharing: value of the material times the number of downloads, so we are easily talking about claims in the range of millions.
Phew, I thought I'd misread it
So the law doesn't "make it illegal to use clips of a movie in critiquing it".
> In the end, even hacker news probably becomes unavailable in Europe. If a user would paste a newspaper article into a comment, hacker news could be sued for this copyright violation.
It's already illegal for HN to host copyright material.