took the former view and voted yes to require tech titans like google you tube and facebook to scan uploaded content for copyright violations and compensate content providers for using their work could the scabbing process wind up blocking not only copyright infringement but creativity and open exchange that prospect drove hundreds of thousands of european internet users to the streets in protest copyright cashing in on the internet that's our topic here our cast's grace is a berlin based freelance author who often writes about tech and she says it is a perilous time for content creators but europe caps police the entire internet. alan posner is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper divis he says europe is forcing the internet giants to respect intellectual property and pay for it and that's good news for everyone except google. and it's