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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."
I, for one, welcomed our DMCA overlords 5 years ago, and look forward to 5 more years of persecution of those intellectual property-stealing scum.
I wish /. editors had a clue about spelling!
DROS - Open-Source Robot Software
My. Clever.
Place it in a lamp socket, if you would. Please.
but only with hot grits mmk? ;-)
The cost of movies today are actually going down because of technology. The thing that kills movies is the cost of marketing them. A movie may make 120 million at the box office but cost 50 million to promote. That leaves 70 million of which the box office takes half. The 35 million left is put towards the 80 million in production costs. Now the studio is 45 million in the hole. The video sales will cost 25 million to promote (the box office already created awareness) and will bring in 75 million over the couse of a year. This leaves a profit of 5 million for an average "good" film.
You can't sell as many DVDs if you don't have a big movie opening (in general).
It only deserves 1 and 1/2 stars.
Sorry.
Just ask the scientologists. They mention the word 'DMCA' and slashdot cowers to their every demand.
Until some debian zealot figures out a way to bring it up in comments.
How about slashdot reviews 5 years of goatse.cx?
the DMCA controls YOU!! ..or was that America..
Darn, I can never get it right.
Anyone else find it ironic that the report is in PDF?
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There was a gun maker a while ago that had adverts running claiming that their cheap 9mm hand guns had a finger-print resistive finish on them. They got (for lack of a better term) bitch slapped for this, which was a good thing.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I recall reading something a while ago about some guy who was going to publish old arcade game manuals online, but someone pulled the same sort of stunt on him. Was that one was DMCA related as well?
Sounds like the same sort of thing that's happening now with "Partial Birth Abortion." A medical procedure designed to safely remove a non-viable fetus is being twisted into something horrifying.
But when you stick up for Koresh, that deflates your argument.
I don't give a fuck about David Koresh. It's just that the United States government trapped his followers in their compound, gassed them, and then burned them alive.