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What a shitty law, how did that get passed? Or is there something I missing from all this?
by prox 3y ago
What a shitty law, how did that get passed? Or is there something I missing from all this?
- yieldcrv 3y agoUnanimously approved by Congress to implement a treaty obligation as this was the mid-late 1990s, both the law and the treaty obligation did not consider the future state of the internet, and it mostly focuses on physical but electronic mediums distinctive bills to patch the DMCA have largely failed due to general partisan paralysis in Congress for decades now, it simply needs to be a rider in must-pass bills but so far it hasnt been
- prox 3y agoI see, so it never got updated properly? Also knowing how little the average politician probably knows about this subject I don’t see it changing.
- mr_toad 3y agoCopyrights are basically a long lineage of shitty laws on top of older shitty laws all due to people lobbying to become rent seekers, most on works that they themselves never created.
- berniedurfee 3y agoFollow the money.