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Death By DMCA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the law-to-the-head-ed-grubberman dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Proof we are not a democracy by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, if everyone here chips in, maybe we can buy our very own Senator?

    --
    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  2. Re:more proof the RIAA/MPAA are insane by Mikya · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has anyone read Player Piano by Vonnegut? Great book... pretty good story about technology and designed obsolescence, and the collapse therein of a society... I won't give away the ending,

    I think you just did.

  3. Thank you DMCA, thank you MPAA/RIAA by jbssm · · Score: 5, Funny
    I would really like to thank you all.

    Now I can sleep well in the evening knowing that after a day full of downloading copyrighted music and movies, not paying a cent for them and still making copies of what turns out not to be junk to give to my friends ... I'm doing my role to make this world a better place to live.

  4. What next? by Phantom784 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next thing you know, they're going to make microwaves illegal so I can't get up and make popcorn during the commercials.