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| 10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That “Saved the Web” |
|   from the not-perfect-the-understatement-of-the-year dept.        |
|   posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 28, @01:40 (The Intern|
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/27/2357205 |
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[0]mattOzan writes “On the tenth anniversary of the [1]Digital Millennium
Copyright Act [PDF], Wired Magazine posits that the [2]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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Links:
0. mailto:vispuslo [Email address: vispuslo #AT# mattCOWozan.netminusherbivore - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
2. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/ten-years-later.html