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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. "Journalism" Wired Style by devloop · · Score: 5, Interesting

    TFA is a total fallacy, there is not even a weak attempt at justifying the conclusion
    that the DMCA has had any sort of beneficial effects on technology, much less
    "catalyzing the interactive '2.0' web".

    There is as much of a cause/effect relationship between the two as
    there is between the DMCA being enacted and my balls growing gray hairs the same year.

    Here's a link to the definition of Non sequitur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic)

    Just your typical lame eyeball whoring by Wired, nothing to see move along.