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This is ridiculous. What is the point of DMCA if you arrest sites that comply with DMCA requests? The onus is on the copyright holder to find infringing content
by sabret00the 15y ago
This is ridiculous. What is the point of DMCA if you arrest sites that comply with DMCA requests? The onus is on the copyright holder to find infringing content and report it. The concept is a simple one.
"No one is coming to see my movie because they're all downloading it via this link that I've just reported and thus everyone will come and see my movie again."
That is the concept everyone agreed to, so why now is that not enough? The US Government is laughable in this regards, they handle something as simple as this so completely and utterly poorly and then think to themselves, that's too hard, let's take a sledgehammer to it all in the name of SOPA. This is everything that's wrong with the Anti-Piracy movement.
- creativityland 15y agoWould be interesting to hear the Obama administration's take on this ... but they will most likely just keep quite.
- sp332 15y agoDoesn't the FBI count as the "Obama administration"? They are in his branch of the government after all.
- seanp2k2 15y agoWhy is MegaUpload not protected under DMCA for user uploaded content? Very much related: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/appeals-court-reaffirms-dmca-protection-for-user-generated-content.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/appeals-cour...
- true_religion 15y agoThey are. The Justice Department apparently is trying to argue that they aren't following the DMCA.