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Protect IP (fka COICA)
- smokeyj 15y agoWar is peace, censorship is freedom.
- swombat 15y agoI really do think that the first western country to develop and apply truly open IP laws (that are far less protective of publishers/distributors than the ones we have today) will see a revolution in online web services. Is that even possible, though, given the thicket of international treaties that every western country necessarily adheres to?
- mustpax 15y agoAs flawed as the DMCA is, it does a pretty good job of protecting the service providers themselves. They need to implement a timely DMCA takedown process but that's about it. They can still be sued but, to my understanding, mostly through stretch interpretations of existing copyright law created by legal precedent rather codified into law per se ("inducing copyright infringement"). So, and I ask this question honestly, how could the law be more open short of abolishing copyright? (Once again, DMCA takedown abuses notwithstanding.)
- swombat 15y agoI am, actually, all for abolishing copyrights, at least for a few years (long enoughg for better models to emerge). Taking the ##AA out of the picture would give room for some real innovation. When the dust settles, a few years later, it should be clearer how to implement copyrights in a just and balanced way.
- mtogo 15y agoYou know something is old news when even fred wilson is blogging about it.