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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.'"
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.
DMCA will collapse society, DRM'd Film at 11
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