looperhacks
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
And there are other countries outside the US and Europe, it's not just a "EU" thing. (I wanted to write North America first, but even Canada does blocking, in some cases even without court orders [3])
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site... [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/congress-has-another-s... [3] https://piracymonitor.org/canada-evolving-piracy-threats-pro...
Generally with acts like these: You don't have to be fully compliant in practice. You need to know how compliant you are, have a plan to improve things, and prove that you are working on it. But if you are "close enough" (depending on who audits you), non-compliance isn't a direct route to fines.
[citation needed]
Where I live, stores don't open on Sundays. Many apparently do in France, but I imagine not all of them. So there are potentially 24 + 12 hours where nobody's there to check stuff
However, it doesn't change the behavior much: LinkageErrors can also happen any time at runtime, not necessarily during startup. Just like the MatchException.
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