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You say this as if the problem isn't American corporations and pooled special interests bribing, blackmail and rig elections in every country they can until they get what they want.
No.
The copyright lobby in the EU is homegrown. For example, the football league in Italy has achieved sweeping laws that can be used to block pirated live streams without much ado. Expect that to be rolled out across the EU.
It's true that these EU corporations are in league with the US copyright lobby. After all, Europeans read American books, watch American movies, listen to American music. The books are usually badly translated and published by a European corporation, which gives Europeans a cut. European agencies, often government-sponsored monopolies, collect money and send much of it to the US. But a lot is doled out to European corporations. And the collecting agencies have a good thing going, as well.
It's the dutchies from the north. They invented capitalism. Us latinos belgians are cool.
Yeah, it was Europe's fault for getting the US to replace its utilitarian "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts" basis for copyright with 'droite d'arteur' moral rights (via the Berne Convention treaty) in the first place.
It's bizzare, you started off by saying "No" in a willful display of poor social skills but then went on to say very little that I've disagreed with.
I mean, I didn't say that each country didn't have their own lobby, now did I?
The pressure and the money to actually change things and control your country's entire online media narrative is controlled by a very small number of US companies. They use this power to rig elections and force law like the above through. I understand that wi be difficult reading for some Americans who don't like that they're now the colonising Empire but, that doesn't change that the main problem with sorting our own digital data laws hasn't been meddling by American business interests.
Have you got anything more than "I don't like this. So, it isn't true?"
I appreciate the “fuck America swinging their dicks around in other’s business” sentiment, but let’s not entertain conspiracy where there isn’t any. America doesn’t need to push its preferences in places where the sentiment already aligns.
My post is that you you blame this on America you won’t think clearly about the actual issue, which is the sentiment of EU politicians and businesses and how they skew unduly in favor of harsh intellectual property restrictions.