european union wants to make providers like facebook or your perspire answerable for copyright violations their users commit on their sites not providers threaten to employ special algorithms so-called upload filters to block users from uploading content containing copyrighted material. who on earth would ban this song from the web. well you tube might do it for one. if the new e.u. copyright directive comes into force content sharing platforms such as you tube might end up using automatic upload filters to prevent copyrighted songs or photos