[specializeded]

What is missing in this picture is that this Directive gives affordable enforcement muscle to all copyright owners*, including the smallest ones.

[AllegedAlec]

It promises that muscle over the backs of people creating platforms, though. How is a small company going to ever create an upload filter that has little to none false positives and false negatives when even the FAANGs are not able to do this?

[anigbrowl]

All content producers are copyright owners by definition, except insofar as they have contracted deals about the content in question prior to production.