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EFF Report: Four Years Under the DMCA

Posted by chrisd on from the many-more-years-to-go dept.

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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  1. No, *this* is an illegal post by handsomepete · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is an illegal post (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 12, @08:15 (#5066383)

  2. Re:No, I haven't joined the EFF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow nice troll i almost wrote a big response about how wrong that post is but then i came to my senses...

  3. Linux := ILLEGAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    $ echo "this a is copyrighted sentence" > file
    $ chmod 000 file.

    According to the file permissions, nobody is allowed to read this file. Logging in a root to over ride the permisisions is a VIOLATION OF DMCA AS IT CIRCUMVENTS THE THE ACCESS CONTROL MECHANISM.

  4. boring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    must we beat this dead horse again?

  5. I didn't see the sky falling by filmcritic · · Score: 0, Troll

    And I still do not. Neither do you assholes. Most people who blather on and on about this DEAD AS A FUCKING DOORNAIL issue know nothing about it. Lookie here all you chicken littles: the world didn't end, the sky didn't fall, and your little linux machine is still running after 4 years under the iron fist rule of the DMCA. Only a linux moron would be so concerned over something like this because they have no software DVD decoders for linux. Why? Because no one wants to throw their money down the tubes creating one. Duh.