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If I make you go through the DMCA counternotice process for buying apples from me, that's not a problem with DMCA, it's me having an absurd process around purch
by IanCal 2y ago
If I make you go through the DMCA counternotice process for buying apples from me, that's not a problem with DMCA, it's me having an absurd process around purchasing apples. I don't see how people weirdly requiring this process shows an issue with DMCA.
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- stackghost 2y agoGood grief. Is it not obvious that the DMCA's very existence has created a shield that enables such shenanigans?
- piltdownman 2y agoOnly in the same totemistic, cargo-cult quality that GDPR has for basic data operations tangential to PII. In short, without explicit punitive penalties enshrined in the legislation itself, you will never be able to stop Corporations wielding consumer-facing legislation in an asymmetric and bad faith manner. This is as true of GDPR and AML/KYC legislation as it is of DMCA and similar abuses of copyright and IP laws by lobbyists.
- Dylan16807 2y agoIt seems to me that these processes are generally following the intent of the DMCA process, which is very different from spiteful responses to GDPR. I think a closer analogy to GDPR would be companies turning off tracking for a bunch of people outside the EU, and I would lay most of the blame/praise for that at the feet of GDPR.
- KerrAvon 2y agoIt is a problem with the DMCA because the DMCA makes companies do this to CYA because your apple purchase might be circumventing copyright and it's easier just to assume it applies to everything than to narrow it to actual copyright violations. It is a very bad law, it should never have been written, and it, not Obamacare, should be repealed.