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Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order
(torrentfreak.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2025
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Wow Belgium, I thought you were a bit cooler than that
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.