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If you want the DMCA changed, you're going to need to find enough money to, as part of a competitive auction against the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA, successfully bribe
by bleepblorp 6y ago
If you want the DMCA changed, you're going to need to find enough money to, as part of a competitive auction against the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA, successfully bribe:
218 Congresspeople
60 Senators
1 President
5 Supreme Court (in)justices.
A conservative estimate is that getting the DMCA reformed would cost at least a billion dollars in bribes ('campaign contributions'). No one who has that much money spare has enough of an interest in public-interest copyright reform to be willing to spend that much money.
As a practical matter, it's much more feasible to cultivate hosting infrastructure outside of the United States than to consider DMCA reform.
- gamblor956 6y agoEurope also has copyright anti-circumvention laws...
- Mindwipe 6y agoStronger anti-circumvention laws than the US too. As they're written into international treaties every functional Western democracy has them. Pretty much the only exemption is Israel.
- varispeed 6y agoAnd any of the new billionaires is not eccentric enough to commission such bribe. They all want to be famous and be remembered by inventing another scooter or some form of a phone or another gizmo, but none of them think about freeing our culture from mafia like organisations gatekeeping it.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoThat's not how buying government officials works. You don't have to buy a majority of them. You just need a couple who then go in and horse trade for the thing you want. Then they vote for some boondoggles and healthcare bills, and in exchange 51% of the other ones vote for the thing they (i.e. you) wanted. You can look up how much the RIAA and MPAA spent on campaign contributions. It wasn't a billion dollars. And "campaign contributions" are only one path to victory. You could also go the route of getting Wikipedia et al to do what they did for SOPA.