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Nah, I am more interested in charging the police officers with DMCA violations and penalties on top of disturbing the peace and purposeful interference with som

Nah, I am more interested in charging the police officers with DMCA violations and penalties on top of disturbing the peace and purposeful interference with someone exercising their First Amendment rights. Seriously, we don't need to fix the DMCA. This isn't the problem here. The problem is staring us in the face. Police are empowered by their unions which have a stranglehold on local if not national politics; even that 350 billion in the covid bills to shore up state finances is a little disguised bailout of public employee pension systems. the simple fact is, public sector employee unions are a threat to the financial and physical security of all Americans. their actions permit their members to provide bad to no service in both schools and police if not general public services over all. Remember, qualified immunity is not just a police issue, it covers all public employees.

dahart 6y ago
Isn’t undermining someone’s ability to use copyrighted material with the intent of causing a video takedown in the first place going to be a lot easier to achieve, and have the same outcome that you want? It isn’t realistic to think the officers could be prosecuted for DMCA violations, nor is it even that clear cut - they aren’t posting the videos that are being taking down. It takes two parties here to result in the copyright violation. This is definitely not a good look for law enforcement to fight against public videos this way, even if it’s a clever hack. It is potentially violating the law, and it runs against the very reasons they have body cams. But enforcement won’t be easy and requires proving intent, which makes it even harder. So much simpler to just take away this particular avenue for avoiding public records.