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Fighting Spam - Using the DMCA for Good?

Posted by Cliff on from the smacking-your-friendly-neighborhood-spammer dept.

Tesseract asks: "Since I run my own mail server, and have several processes in place to stop spam from hitting my mailbox, could it not be construed as a violation of the DMCA for spammers to 'bypass' my anti-spam protections? On a similar note, wouldn't retention of my copyrighted information (email address) be a violation of copyright law? It would seem that [parts of section 1201 might cover such situations]. How about this reference, as well? Isn't there some way to turn this legal nightmare back on itself kung-fu style?"

2 of 26 comments (clear)

  1. ha ha ha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    are you a big company that gives lots of money to the government?

    then get lost. the dmca doesn't apply to you.

    and you run a server, that makes you a computer expert. that's one step away from hacker, pirate, or terrorist.

    remember, this government isn't here to protect YOU, it's funny you'd think that.

  2. Don't grant it the legitimacy by Pyromage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The instant you try to use it like this: sure it is valid under the letter of the law, however, it's clearly a wrong and misguided law, and arguably unconstitutional.

    You'd probably win in court with this: this would be bad because it sets a precedent that the DMCA is valid, which it is not. Be better than they are and don't fsck over the rest of us.