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Three Years Under the DMCA

Posted by michael on from the prohibition-lasted-fourteen-years dept.

willybur writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation just released a report (pdf) today detailing the last three years under the DMCA. It describes how the DMCA has been used to unfairly attempt to prosecute all of the various parties over the years, and gives yet another argument of why the DMCA needs to be struck down. It's worth a read." Slashdot has covered most of the incidents listed, but this is nice summary to hand someone who hasn't been following these issues.

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  1. Re:PDF by heyetv · · Score: 5, Informative

    Then install pdftohtml, or pdf2ps, or xpdf, or ghostview... funny how people thing pdf is adobe... it's like saying linux is redhat.

  2. You want DMCA in Plain English? by yerricde · · Score: 5, Informative

    What's needed is a plain-English interpretation describing the legitimate activities which were crimilized under the DMCA (with the existing legal examples likewise described in plain English), in terms that make Joe Public think "Omighod, that could happen to me!!"

    Here are a couple papers I wrote a while back (when the CBDTPA was still called SSSCA):
    The Politics of Copy Protection Technology
    DMCA in Plain English

    You might also find this paper helpful: What's Wrong With Copy Protection by John Gilmore.

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