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It is unconstitutional. EFF filed a court case to repeal it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/first-amendment-case-against-restrictive-copyright-law-can-p
by shmerl 6y ago
It is unconstitutional. EFF filed a court case to repeal it.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/first-amendment-case-against-restrictive-copyright-law-can-proceed-says-judge https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/first-amendment-case-a...
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago2 out of the 3 First Amendment claims (overbreadth, prior restraint) were dismissed. The one that survived was that 1201 might be unconsitutional as applied to the specific set of facts: a researcher publishing a book on encryption. The case is ongoing; there are no indications that EFF will succeed.
- shmerl 6y agoSomeone should succeed, may be legislators who shouldn't have allowed this to exist in the first place. Corrupt DMCA 1201 garbage should be eventually repealed.