• @[email protected]
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    709 days ago

    Sounds like a link tax, not actually reproducing any written content. I really dislike link taxes, they’re gonna break the internet at some point if they don’t see pushback.

    • @PriorityMotif
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      259 days ago

      If the code automatically shows the article or summarizes it without clicking on the link, then yeah, that’s infringement. It should only show the title and the link imo.

      • @[email protected]
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        9 days ago

        Except the summary is almost always literally the content the sites ask the sites linking them to show.

        They have “please show this preview instead of a boring plain link” code.

        • Max-P
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          199 days ago

          This. They even provide the cover image to use. If they don’t want embedding they could just block the request.

          But they don’t want to. They want to sell the cake and eat it too.

          • @NeoNachtwaechter
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            -29 days ago

            They want to sell the cake and eat it too…

            Or they want to sell the cake and get paid for it.

            • @General_Effort
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              28 days ago

              More like: They want to sell the cake and be paid when you recommend it to others.

              Mind that news media don’t pay when they link to social media, quote people, or even report what other media has reported. The real question is, if this law has any beneficial effect for society. I don’t see how.

              • @NeoNachtwaechter
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                08 days ago

                Mind that news media don’t pay

                That’s exactly what (maybe) violates the law.

                • @General_Effort
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                  28 days ago

                  You think people should pay X to link to tweets? Or generally for quotes?

                  • @NeoNachtwaechter
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                    No, I’m not saying anything about ‘should’.

                    It’s about a lawsuit here, and I have told that this may be what has violated the law.

                    The court will tell you for sure, in the end.

      • @General_Effort
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        59 days ago

        It should only show the title and the link imo.

        That’s infringement in Europe, which makes it effectively a link tax.

    • Iceblade
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      89 days ago

      Yeah, it’s the same thing that lets us have a site like lemmy

    • @RedditWanderer
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      Now when I open a Google map link my wife sent from messenger, messenger opens a copy of maps inside messenger that doesn’t work half the time. Is that excluded from link tax?

      When musks puts unskippable ads to go to content instead of reading it almost in its entirety right on the site (with an ad besides it), is that also link tax?

      Enshitification of links is what will break the internet. Musk would be the first to sue for this.

      • @[email protected]
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        109 days ago

        I’m in Canada, and I sent a cbc.ca news link to someone in instagram chat. It showed a preview of the post with a picture and summary, but when the link was clicked it went to a page that said:

        People in Canada can’t view this content.

        Content from news publications can’t be viewed in Canada in response to Canadian government legislation.

        • @[email protected]
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          These previews are almost always specified by the website themself, using the OpenGraph protocol. The website is literally asking other services to “use this for the preview’s image, and this block of text for the description, please!”