• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Copyright preemption is a long-standing legal doctrine. Congress makes copyright laws. State law and contract law has to give way.

    They can still use EU law to extract money, just not as much.

    I don’t think it’s entirely clear what effect a login-wall would have. Facebook has been quite successful with that technique in the past. So there are some precedents. But I think today there is more understanding for the harmful effects these had.