This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of innocent people just in case they copy a digital file.
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Everyone will start saying “Fuck copyright” soon.
The purpose of the state is serving capital, not people.
How do I copyright myself and I every last bit of content that I create?
Any work you create is probably under copyright automatically, if your country is party to the Berne convention.
Fuck this is setting precedent to break open VPNs
ITT: people who apparently think the only online crime is copyright infringement.