The E.U. law on copyright filtering and link tax will take a 2-year grace period in every single E.U. member state, including the U.K. had it not been fully Brexited. Every single platform if it is commercial will only be around for no more than three years, it should contain no more than five million visitors, or make less than 10 million Euros within that period. Short length clips featuring parody is still legal and all commercial platforms and sites in any E.U. member state that wants to implement it until that point will have to prepare for the worst. I cannot be certain if the same ambigious limits would be the same for non-commercial ones too.
Given the not so sophisticated filtering technology for such a hastily passed law, replacing an 18-year old version and a narrow rejection to remove Article 13 at the last minute just today, I suspect that even content that comes from Europe will not be available here in the U.S. and other countries. This makes it look like as if Europe is following China's lead. This means even non-EU citizens who want to do business with EU citizens or just to get content made by them will have two full years, maybe less before it fully becomes law. Any of those left behind that reject the implementation after that grace period is going to be slammed very hard by their Parliament.
If I see any drastic changes to the terms of service on any place I go to that associate with E.U. policies despite not being a citizen of Europe, know that my time on the Internet would be ending from that point, because I love using it, I been using it for years since. Even my family and friends all over the world would eventually find out they cannot use the Internet as often because of this in place. Right now, it is not happening immediately like the downfall of Net Neutrality back last year, so we have time.
Edit: The Directive isn't truly a law right now despite the passing, April 15 is E.U.'s "second wind" chance to make the E.U. reject the becoming law part and if they reject it, it'll just be tossed back to the drawing board where they'll try again. Oh, and did I not even mention they changed the numbers in order to fool Europeans from 11 and 13 to 15 and 17? That is utterly preposterous. Since we're already that deep into the month, after this week is over, they'll likely make it law and it will take three weeks to enforce it, but two years still for E.U. member states to figure out what their new laws will be for their courts.
