From Protest against Article 13: Wikipedia goes offline on March 21st
from David Wurm 
on March 09, 2019, 15:41 | Write a comment
The vote on the upcoming EU copyright law, or "Article 13", is getting closer and closer. The popular platform Wikipedia is taking a drastic step towards this: on March 21, the platform will be taken offline for 24 hours.
Wikimedia, the Wikipedia Foundation, has long been against the upcoming upload filter, which is to come with EU copyright law. The planned reform of copyright law in the EU has been criticized for some time. Now you do it yourself Protest and shut down the site for a day. What happens now?
Editor's note: wAs Article 13 is accurate, we will refer to it in an upcoming article TechnikNews explain exactly.
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Whoever visits Wikipedia on March 21st is not really referred to a "crazy" server. Instead, a message will appear with the reason for the temporary shutdown. In an open letter one writes there, for example, that “the planned reform could lead to the free Internet being considerably restricted”. People are encouraged to go to demos and contact politicians.
By the way, here you can the petition against Article 13 .
Small businesses are also affected
In the new EU reform, small businesses would also be confronted with the demands of Article 13. Since every community would then have to check when uploading whether this content already exists on the Internet or is protected by copyright, this is an enormous effort. Through ProTests like this one want to draw attention to the wrong way of Article 13 and hope for a change in the law. Actually, this change should "only" lead to better copyright law - which will also censor content with a filter, as required by law in its current form. “With such a legal uncertainty Projects like Wikipedia could not have come into being 20 years ago,” said Dimitar Dimitrov, EU representative of Wikimedia.
In the coming days we will be on TechnikNews bring a detailed contribution to Article 13. We will clarify all the facts and information about the upcoming EU copyright law there.
