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2026-07-27 10:57 UTC
This law was adopted under pressure from the US Trade Representative, who threatened the EU with tariffs on its exports unless it adopted an "anticircumvention rule" that banned EU technologists from making products that let Europeans prevent US tech companies from stealing their money and data":
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-27 10:58
This law is still in force in the EU, despite the fact that Trump (predictably) reneged on the US side of the bargain, hitting the EU with massive tariffs and even threatening to steal part of Denmark. Article 6 of the Copyright Directive is the reason European tech companies can't jailbreak America's apps, whether that's to get its government and corporate data off of US platforms: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/#data-dieselgate 17/