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Disclaimer: we're still going over it to fully understand how it will affect us in the future. We have no intention of blocking EU users from accessing itch.io.

From what I understand, itch.io classifies as a "small enterprise" and is not subject to the regulations being announced . The regulations are effectively designed to attack large internet companies. These laws do set a dangerous precedent though, since if they were expanded then it could only enable the larger platforms to continue operating with their capital and block out smaller platforms from ever starting

If we grow past the threshold then we will investigate adding automated content filtering services. Something like this will most likely come from a third party service that is in compliance, since burden it would place on us to run ourselves would be great.

Regarding the link tax (article 11), we're still investigating it but it appears to be  very bizarre and ignorant of how the internet works. At this point, it seems that if external sites want to participate in this system then we'll give them the tools to block their links from appearing on our site.

the link tax (art. 11) should not be a problem.


But... is itch a small enterprise? Really? it's the biggest website of videogames uploaded by users

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Yeah, according to thresholds they set we still classify as small enterprise with room to spare. I think they really are focused on targeting much larger companies with this legislation.

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where are the thresholds? I didn't find them...

no reply?

These laws do set a dangerous precedent though, since if they were expanded then it could only enable the larger platforms to continue operating with their capital and block out smaller platforms from ever starting
Wouldn't an expansion like that conflict with laws to prevent monopolies / unfair competition / cartels, though, just because it would make it unfeasible for small companies to keep up? Wouldn't be surprised if the regulations only applying for big companies is exactly for that reason, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a class-action lawsuit coming up if they tried pushing the regulations in a direction that would make it unfeasible to run small enterprises period... several countries have umbrella organizations that keep an eye on things like this on behalf of small enterprises.

It's still a worrying development, though... GDPR was kinda grounded in reality and was addressing a real problem that people were having, and then the EU drops something like this less than a year later.

yes. it's a stupid law. But the law is the law. I don't find where it talks about "only the big company". Where is it? And... is really itch a small company? Really?! It has too many games and devs to be "small"

Technically Itchio's creators are customers, too... itchio is a service that lets people buy and sell stuff, it's not a company that hires developers to make stuff. Only people that are on Itch's payroll directly counts towards its size.

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yes, I know. And the law made is for this kind of websites. It's for websites where the users can upload stuff.  but @leafo  said that it's ONLY for BIG websites. But I dunno where he saw it