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Throw away the DMCA and you throw away all safe harbors for websites, and then the internet is truly screwed. There's no way the current congress would ever acc
by Andrex 1y ago
Throw away the DMCA and you throw away all safe harbors for websites, and then the internet is truly screwed. There's no way the current congress would ever accept such a thing again -- Section 230 has been weaponized against it already.
What we should be saying is Improve the DMCA. You've already clued into the biggest thing that needs to change (DRM/anti-anti-circumvention).
Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. This is unpopular to say in HN-type circles but the DMCA is actually not that bad and mostly works as it should.
- Terr_ 1y agoThe protections of section 230 are from an entirely different law (CDA 1996), even repealing the whole DMCA is separate.
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- conductr 1y agoAny improvement is a change and you can’t just make “improvements” when the changes require politicians. It’s likely they would seize the opportunity to change a lot more than the improvements you feel are needed.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y ago> Throw away the DMCA and you throw away all safe harbors for websites, and then the internet is truly screwed Yet we have plenty of internet outside of the USA where we don't have the DMCA. There are various laws that tackle some parts of it, but there's also consumer-friendly laws as well (e.g. the right to repair although that's for physical goods).
- newsclues 1y agoIf there is anything good in the DMCA those sections can be reimplemented in law. But we should not tolerate broken laws because they have some benefits, when we have the power to remove and replace bad laws with good ones.