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."

Comments

Re:Lets look at the positive side of DMCA

[CausticWindow]

Funny that you're saying this (not that anything you say are actually funny).

Just wanted to point out that music like the music produced by Run DMC, is one of the VERY few positive things about the US, the last fiften years or so.

Like so many positive cultural things from the US, it's produced by "niggers", as you call them. I think it's time those "niggers" took the power back,

Re:You'd think better of the EFF

[QuantumG]

I never implied that the mudslinging campaign was modern, and yes, copying other people's work has always been socially acceptable, and no, the term was not coined by the ones doing the copying and rather than just saying "was not" to my "was so" why don't you reveal your sources on this one?