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		badloginagain on Sept 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘lin... Moving from a world wide web to a decentralized, fractured web? Instead of WWW you have FBW (FacebookWeb, GW (GoogleWeb), AW (AppleWeb). What a sad future that would be.

marknadal on Sept 12, 2018 [–]

If there is no service then GDPR acts as a higher precedent. EU would have to change their law that users are not allowed to store XYZ content on their own harddrives.

So yes, P2P/decentralization is a perfectly legal alternative for the time being.

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