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10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-perfect-the-understatement-of-the-year dept.

mattOzan writes "On the tenth anniversary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [PDF], Wired Magazine posits that the DMCA should be praised for catalyzing the interactive '2.0' Web that we enjoy today. While acknowledging the troublesome 'anti-circumvention' provision of the act, they claim that any harm caused by that is far outweighed by the act's "notice-and-takedown" provision and the safe harbor that this provides to intermediary ISPs. Fritz Attaway, policy adviser for the MPAA weighed in saying 'It's not perfect. But it's better than nothing.'"

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  1. Re:Bovine Fecal Matter by noanoxan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I believe that's the smell of communism.

  2. The article gives unfair credit to Bill by theaveng · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    From the article: "President Clinton signed into law exactly a decade ago Tuesday."

    Well good job Bill! (cheers). By the way, you're the same joker who signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed a portion of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (forbidding banks from speculating in stock markets), and thereby caused the current housing mess & rampant bank failures of 2007-8 and approximately 1.5 trillion in taxpayer bailouts to the rich fat cats on Wall Street (corporate welfare).

    Nice job there ol' buddy.

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  3. Re:Praising the DMCA is going a bit far by bishiraver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nationalize the media? Wow.

    Really?