Note that as it stands the current proposal won’t pass as there are multiple member states (NL, Spain, Poland) against it and it’s probably unlawful. It has to be thoroughly revised to pass; those changes probably will make it more useless than it already is, but hopefully saves us from privacy/encryption backdoors, this time.
They also have ambitions to block websites, basically common web censorship. The current president of the commission already tried that on a national level in Germany.
It cannot pass under any circumstance, it needs to be rejected as a whole. There is no compromise to be had.
Many petition to vote in favour of this proposal; cannot find one against. I did email our dutch minister with concern. Any other plans? It is scary how many (including tech people) want this to happen ‘for the children’.
There are immense lobbying attempt by large tech companies. Otherwise nobody in tech circle really supports this at all. On the contrary, the rest of the industry is more or less unanimously against this with a lot of experts deriding the ideas.
Also some civil rights activist that believe this proposal to be quite illegal.
Well most people who work in tech and who are technical that I know personally, are, to my surprise, in favour of it. I just asked them after reading comments here. But they, like many, did not inform themselves; they just ‘want more protection for children’.
Perhaps there is a regional difference, but I don't know a single developer that is in favor of it. I don't see how anyone with technical knowledge could come to a positive conclusion here if they look at error rates and problems to privacy.
There were also public hearings with technical experts about feasibility that were said to be a huge embarrassment for people proposing the bill as the rejection was so clear. I think from nine experts, zero accepted the proposal and made pretty clear, that this is to be rejected with prejudice.
The only ones in tech that I know of at least are those that want to sell their own AI solutions. As I said, there was quite a bit of lobbying.
If you’re watching content that you don’t have lawful access to (i.e.: the licensing for those streams very likely doesn’t include you), it’s absolutely piracy. It’s just really easy and unenforceable piracy.
That doesn’t mean it’s ethically wrong, but that’s another question entirely.
