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

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 27, 2008 @05:40PM 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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Re:-1, Troll by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-27 20:06 · Score: -1, Troll

I see you were just as excited as I was when the number of US casualties in Iraq exceeded the number of US dead in the World Trade Center bombing. And I bet the 300,000 or so Iraqi dead from the US invasion and occupation were equally excited at our bringing them a reign free of Hussein, free of violence, and free of terror.