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If these legislations pass, hubski.com would clearly have to shut down (by @mk, unless he has deep pockets and lawyers on retainer). Not even filtering of posting of URLs would prevent users to cut and paste "copyrighted" content. Game over.
IMO, this is partly designed to enable the entirely predictable and obvious 'next step', that is the "legal" granting of exemptions to "recognized news agencies" e.g. The New York Times Company. (Remember saint Steve Jobs' comments on "nation of bloggers".)