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EFF Reviews 5 Years Under The DMCA

Posted by timothy on from the an-icy-wind dept.

briaydemir writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a new report, Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the DMCA, detailing how the DMCA has stiffled competition, innovation, scientific research, and fair use. The original news release is here, and the report is also available as a PDF. Check it out if you want a good summary of all the DMCA cases over the past five years."

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  1. Lets look at the positive side of DMCA by segment · · Score: 3, Funny
    I for one am no advocate but here are some options for the creators of the DCMA when it gets pounded eventually, which are positive...

    Create a boy band called DMCA then plit them up giving them all losing solo careers

    Create a rap group RunDMC is taken but JogDMCA is available

    Take the paper it was written on and donate it to public toilets

    Team with R. Kelly and continue going after minors and morons

    Give it to Blair or Cheney (forged of course) so they could start a war with China

    Give it to Bush and tell him it's this year's economic stimulus package (he'll believe it)

    Give it to Ashcroft so he could make a DMCA color coded warning system no one listens to

    See there is more to the DMCA than you thought. And all along everyone was protesting... pffffft

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    1. Re:Lets look at the positive side of DMCA by r_cerq · · Score: 2, Funny
      You forgot those the looting part of piracy, so...:

      Create a band named Pillage People singing "DMCA!"

  2. Re:Excessive punishments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "What are you in for?"

    Litterin'... and creatin' a public nuisance.

  3. Re:So how can I use the DMCA? by Tsali · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you a Fortune 500 company?

    Step aside.

    T.

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  4. Re:The law written by marketing idiots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    the only thing this says your not allowed to copy is circumnavigation software

    LOL nearly made me spill tea in the keyboard. So you are not allowed to copy software that allows you to sail around the world? Damn I always wanted a software-emulated boat! ;-)

  5. Re:Fukken der Schitzen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That would be "Fukken der schitzen".

    That's a mix of a japanese name, a german definite article and a language-independent mispelling of a completely mistaken word.

    Und jetzt leckt's mich alle mal am Arsch!
    Das hat er gesagt, als er das Land verlassen hat, du Sprachgenie...