[Cr3aTor]

The new EU Directive just passed... I'm pretty nervous about this. Hope that it's not that bad after all.
We will see how bad this is when they make it into laws.

https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/eu...202937932/
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17482...-juri-vote

[mothered]

Not good at all.

I'd say It'll take a while to be permissible by law. Once It does, we can then see the Impact Is has on everyone Involved.

[Oni]

Sounds kind of socialist. It's likely Netflix/Amazon will just follow suit and raise the cost of using their services. In the end, only the consumer will suffer.

[Jiggly]

I'm hardly surprised, not sure if anyone saw Netflix go up by $2 a year or two ago, but this could just mean more price increases. Also, many people are making some interesting predictions that these streaming services will replace regular TV. And I have to say, I've seen several people do just that.

[chesterbeatdeath]

P2P and a PPTP VPN (paid) removes all worry

[arduinomeat]

I don't see why this is bad news. Like a lot of laws regarding the Internet, created by people who don't know how it works, I think we still have plenty of time before it gets effective (if it is one day).

[Cr3aTor]

Sounds kind of socialist. It's likely Netflix/Amazon will just follow suit and raise the cost of using their services. In the end, only the consumer will suffer.

That's definitely true and as @Jiggly-chan said, soon or later the TV will be replaced with such streaming platforms and now you need to even pay extra money for the basic services provided.

[Cr3aTor]

I don't see why this is bad news. Like a lot of laws regarding the Internet, created by people who don't know how it works, I think we still have plenty of time before it gets effective (if it is one day).

I see it as bad news since the internet will become more and more regulated and the ISPs will now have much more power than before. Sure, they could never stop the internet as a whole, but they can definitely start trying to have control of as much as they can.
Like even if the normal internet would be pretty fucked, you could still access the Tor network which is not so affected by this.

[l33t]

P2P and a PPTP VPN (paid) removes all worry

but wouldn't you have to connect to an american VPN resulting in slow speeds?

[chesterbeatdeath]

P2P and a PPTP VPN (paid) removes all worry

but wouldn't you have to connect to an american VPN resulting in slow speeds?

I pay monthly for a proper VPN that I've tested for leakage and actually sometimes increases my speed by optimizing the connection and making all the packets leaving my computers look exactly the same through single packet encryption. The servers are paid for so they guarantee they don't sell data to the government or corporations. I never ping over 100, no matter what country I connect through. If I connect through the US servers I generally get 50ms or so.
Paying $6.95 a month for piece of mind is a fantastic bargain. My VPN even allows me to not get cut off from my new ISP. They have very strict rules about what you're allowed to do with your giant 50mb/10mb pipeline. As I said, every packet is encrypted before being sent to the ISP, doubly so because I have browser extensions, a custom designed PPTP connection through the OS, and a background program running virus/spyware interference and adding ANOTHER layer of protection.
I have a bunch of machines running at any given time, so my ISP sees 5-6 PC's sending out exactly the same data as every other machine on my network. I can file share, go to websites in other countries, and bypass a bunch of stupid pointless rules about what you're allowed to do with your own damn internet.
If I'm not running triple protection I don't even visit Sinisterly without having a massive amount of condoms on my interwebs.