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DMCA Abuse Widespread
Doc Ruby writes "Via TechDirt, the news that despite the intent of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it's very popular to abuse the law by using it merely to compete, without legal basis: 'Supporters of the DMCA claim that only an occasional improper takedown notice gets through. Some new research suggests otherwise. Over 30% of DMCA takedown notices have been deemed improper and potentially illegal.'"
Shocked and dismayed.
With the fall of the Canadian Liberal government coming on Monday, Canada will be safe from Bil C-60 the Copyright Act amendment until at least the early Spring. This gives our American oppressed neighbours time to find a job north of the 49th, and spend time backing up their "content protected" CD collection to hard drive, or iPod without fear of abuse from the local constabulary.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Bushian reasoning:
1) This is the War On Terrorism.
2) You are either for us or against us.
3) If you are against us in the War On Terrorism, then that makes you
4) A Terrorist.
Blairian reasoning:
1) I'm doing the Right Thing, because I'm a pretty straight kind of guy, ok?
2) And I think Jack has the right to make his speech without impolite interruptions.
3) And we really shouldn't get sidetracked by theoretical arguments about civil liberties, because terrorism is really a very serious threat.
4) And I should point out that I had absolutely nothing to do with the incident itself.
5) And I don't think that a blame culture is very productive at all, just ask Peter or David, so it really isn't helpful to go talking about whether anyone should resign.
5) It's in the past now, so we should all move on and deal with the new problems that are ahead of us, going forward into a better and fairer Britain in the 21st century.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
The DMCA really is a good thing.
Congress passed the DMCA a long while back (a few years now, IIRC). It's obviously withstood the test of time; if there was something illegal about it, the Supreme Court would have already overturned it. So, I don't see where anyone can complain. Obviously the only people who have problems with it are the software/movie pirates, and piracy is bad, right?
We should all just try to get along with the DMCA instead of constantly badmouthing it. It's obviously a valuable and appropriate used piece of legislation.
I prefer..
"Power attracts the corruptible"
DMCA will collapse society, DRM'd Film at 11
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I heard that someone actually had the audacity to put a small piece of tape on the outer edge of one of those DRM'ed Sony CD's to disable the copy protection. What brazen defiance of the DMCA! I'm waiting for the lauch of the ??AA's program of lawsuits to put such vile criminals behind bars where they belong!
Evolution is a fact. Darwinism is a joke.
I demand my unfair share, right now or I'm going back to voting ethically and intelligently.
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
Spot on!
But I think you missed point 5 for Bush:
(5) Profit!!!
There are four boxes to defend liberty with: the soap box, the jury box, the voter box and the ammo box. Use in that order.
I think "they" got hold of the same list, and their response plan went something like this:
-- MarkusQ
I've never seen an apropriate DMCA notice, but in the 2004 election, I took out every web site that belonged to a Texas politicianin the other party - one week before the election. I'll do it again in 2006. I plan to take them out 2 months before the election, and file suits to stop them from coming back up.
Life is good, politicians are helpless, and lawyers are too slow to do anything.
God bless Texas!
Andy Out!