EFF Report: Four Years Under the DMCA

kylus writes "The EFF has a pretty nice article entitled "Unintended Consequences." Basically, it reviews the last four years of life under the law, and how use of the "anti-circumvention" clauses have been used to stifle innovation, censor free speech, and threaten academic/scientific research. It ends with a conclusion most on /. have been dicussing for ages: "Four years of experience with the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the DMCA demonstrate that the statute reaches too far, chilling a wide variety of legitimate activities in ways Congress did not intend."" You've joined the EFF, right?

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Sure it was intended dont misunderstand them.

[nurb432]

All this stuff benefits corporations and anti-rights groups.

These groups are the ones that 'pay' the people that create the laws..

They are not stupid, they have advisors that DO understand technology and law. They knew exactally what they were doing, we were stupid for letting it slip past us.