Article 13 passes European Parliament

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Terrible ruling that will make the internet less free. Hopefully the courts do something about it or at least upload filters are being prevented. Let's see what kind of laws the national governments enact.

Will the Pirate Party receive seats from the backlash against the ruling across Europe?

LOL no. They're essentially a dead thing. The hype was in 2011/12 and is long over.

Even funnier: The only German Pirate in the European Parliament, Julia Reda, has just left her party, and furthermore called upon her supporters to not vote for the Pirates in May because No. 2 on the party list, Gilles Bordelais, has been accused of sexual harassment.
The party list leader is nevertheless likely to enter the EP due to the missing 5% threshold, and that will probably be the last time that that party will enter any parliament (beyond Berlin- Kreuzberg's regional parliament) as the threshold will be re-introduced for th 2024 European elections.

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https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-article-13-vote-article-17

European politicians have voted to pass Article 13 and Article 11 as part of sweeping changes to regulation around online copyright. The European Parliament passed the legislation by 348 votes to 274.

Opponents had hoped for last-minute amendments to be made to the legislation, but failed to garner enough votes. Julia Reda, a German MEP representing the Pirate Party who opposes the copyright directive, said it was a “dark day for internet freedom”. Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, said the result was “great news”.

One question: Is Article 13 a hot topic in the US? Briton James Cordon made a joke about the Directive on Copyright on his American late night show, but the audience didn't even seem to understand the gag.

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Funny I guess, but based on a misleading narrative which benefits the worst kind of Euroskeptics and ultranationalists.

I think you're doing all those protestors and net activists wrong. Did you know that over 200,000 (mainly young) people went on dozens of participate in demonstrations against the directive on copyright law in the last weeks? That's because myriads of YouTubers worry about their means of incomes and therefore about their future life plans. Furthermore, many woke people dread the prospect of being censored by upload filters. Did you know that Wikipedia blackened their German site for a whole day in protest over the politicians' denigration of the activists' fears.
Germany's most eminent entertainment lawyer Christian Solmecke, a staunch AfD opponent, produced dozens of elaborate, informative, educational videos about this topic that have also been recommended by the mainstream media. Plus, the meme in my signatured was produced by extra 3, a very left-wing, tax-funded satire show.

Do these demonstrators look like "Euroskeptics" and "ultranationalists"?







By the way, those heated debates, discussions and demonstrations were sparked by the ungracious and defamatory tone of Christian Democrat Axel Voss (see the meme above), who is a member of the judiciary committee of the European Parliament. He called the protestors "bots", "paid for" and a "mob". Furthermore, another CDU politician, Heribert Hirte (member of the Bundestag), countered the criticism of a tweeter by saying "I have more followers than you", and proceeded to be dissed by one of Germany's biggest YouTubers, Gronkh, who countered: "If that's your killer argument, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring". 

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This is a bad law, but I can't help but feel that - similar to the arguments around net neutrality - activists overegg their case with the "memes are going to be banned!" stuff. All it means is that when the law is introduced and the internet doesn't literally collapse, everyone will just ignore the issue while the law just festers.

Well, technically speaking, the law hasn't become effective before it has been approved by the European Council, the caucus of the heads of state or government of the EU member states.
However, French Culture Minister Franck Riester has announced the start of of a pilot experiment in order to promote content recognizing technologies. The state authority HADOPI, which is competent to enforce copyright on the Internet and block websites, and the national center for cinema and audiovisual media shall be involved in it.

But also the German governemtn has betrayed its citizens: As part of the adoption of the EU Copyright Amendment, there appeared to be a deal between Germany and France related to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. According to FAZ research, Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier offered France a clause stating that companies with a turnover of less than 20 million € should be exempted from the amendment. In return, France approved in the main of the controversial gas pipeline.