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European Commission Attack on Drudge and the Hyperlink

European Commission Attack on Drudge and the Hyperlink Proposed EU law puts simple act of linking to content under copyright protection Kurt Nimmo EU apparatchiks are working on an ancillary copyright law that will threaten websites like the Drudge Report and Infowars.com. “The European Commission is preparing a frontal attack on the hyperlink, the basic building block of the Internet as we know it. This is based on an absurd idea that just won’t die: Making search engines and news portals pay media companies for promoting their freely accessible articles,” writes Julia Reda, a German activist from the Pirate Party and… View Article