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When DMCA was proposed, the internet was up in arms predicting exactly this sort of stuff. It was a ridiculous law then and it is now.
by skrebbel 2y ago
When DMCA was proposed, the internet was up in arms predicting exactly this sort of stuff. It was a ridiculous law then and it is now.
- yyyyz 2y ago[flagged]
- gjsman-1000 2y agoIf you read between the lines in the article, YouTube literally just said 94% of takedowns are real.
- kbolino 2y agoAnd now the Internet is largely a sterile place where the primary business model is built around advertising, selling "data" to "partners", and exploiting gamblers and addicts, while the companies most "saved" from piracy spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to make increasingly unwatchable, unlistenable, and/or unplayable crap. I can imagine worse outcomes, but I can certainly imagine better ones too.
- ndriscoll 2y agoThe DMCA predates Napster, Gnutella, and Bittorrent. It did nothing to prevent piracy, which exploded in the years after it was passed. Low-enough cost convenient enough subscription services moved people away.
- thayne 2y agoIs this sarcastic? There is still lots of piracy, and streaming services that made it more convenient to consume content, like Netflix and Spotify did far more to reduce piracy than DMCA did. And quite a few people have gone to jail, including for creating ways to circumvent DRM, which wasn't illegal before DMCA.
- KevinGlass 2y agoDon't feed the troll. If you look at this account's comments it's just inflammatory statements.
- grecy 2y agoAbsolutely yes. Ridiculous for you and me, and absolutely perfect for multi billion dollar corporations to “protect” their profit streams.