"Tomorrow I am planning to have a look at the New EU directives."
I agree with the tenor of your article. I checked out those directives, and the onus they put on sites to police content will kill free promotion for content providers.
Maybe you'll have a different take on it.
Luckily, those directives aren't due until January. I think they'll have realized it's a bad idea by then, and the directives will never come into force. We'll see.
The artists think they are going to get more but what they are doing I think is going to lose is distribution channels as the large platforms will just block sharing of links of people who are not willing to sign up and exclude themselves from requiring payment.