EFF Reviews 5 Years Under The DMCA

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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Lets look at the positive side of DMCA

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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