Slashdot Mirror


Death By DMCA

Dino writes "There's a good article in the IEEE Spectrum, titled 'Death by DMCA', which talks about how whole classes of devices were eliminated, and how others won't even see the light of day as a result of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. One example is ReplayTV's TiVo-like devices which featured sharing capabilities, along with automatic ad skipping; the company was sued to bankruptcy, and the reincarnated device supported neither sharing nor ad skipping."

1 of 414 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The only way to fight the DMCA by Bezben · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It always amazes me when people think voting will change anything. You honestly think exactly the same think won't happen? All you vote will do will let you chose who passes these things for the **AA.