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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.'"

4 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. DMCA caused web 2.0? by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Assisting web 2.0 is almost as heinous of a crime as assisting the MAFIAA.

  2. Bovine Fecal Matter by DustoneGT · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's next, praise for the security provided by the PATRIOT Act? This wired article wreaks of bovine excrement.

  3. Re:Safe Harbor made innovation work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What do you have against anonymous speech?

    Absolutely nothing!

  4. Re:Safe Harbor made innovation work by YouWantFriesWithThat · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's...[buffering]...not true!