Kommentar: RE: 20190327 EU-Parlament beschließt umstrittene Richtlinie

Now it is here and we can move our pods to Amazon AWS or Ms azure and they have do deal with all the copyright sh**.
Let's see what this does to open Plattforms and backup services. Especially do I have to give a license to the backup service owner? Are we still allowed to encrypt our stuff?

He., 27.03.2019 08:40

RE: 20190327 EU-Parlament beschließt umstrittene Richtlinie

Still I see that it doesn‘t affect non-profit parties/organisations. When I understood correctly from this discussion, it only seems to be an issue that non-profit and for-profit cannot clearly be differentiated as soon as a pod receives donations and is not an officially registered NPO.
But wouldn‘t it be possible to register an non-profit association (something like „diaspora e.V.“) with respective terms and statutes, where pods can join as members? Wouldn‘t that solve the problem for most of us?
As a side effect, the membership fees could help to sponsor some development effords or the like...

E., 27.03.2019 19:57

RE: 20190327 EU-Parlament beschließt umstrittene Richtlinie

No, that wouldn't work, as that non-profit org wouldn't run the pod, their podmin would. The non-profit org neither owns the server, nor is it responsible for it, both of which can't be fixed for obvious reasons. A imaginary "diaspora e.V." could collect donations, but as soon as the money is transferred to the podmins, the situation would be exactly the same: a not-legally-non-profit person receiving money.
A possible workaround would be to have that e.V. pay for the servers directly, but that would put the pods into 100% dependency of that e.V., effectively creating a single point of failure for those pods, governed by a central entity (that e.V.).

De., 27.03.2019 21:14