Father of the catastrophic Copyright Directive reveals he didn't know what he was voting for
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3YSG4)
In the years during which the new EU Copyright Directive was being drafted, a variety of proposals were considered and rejected by the EU's own experts, and purged from the draft text, but two of these proposals were reintroduced, slipped back into the Directive on the day the GDPR came into effect, while everyone's attention was elsewhere. (more")