tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post1291414202831077442..comments2024-03-26T10:41:35.852+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: Is the DCMA biased?Marie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-74843202251502538422011-08-25T22:38:25.025+01:002011-08-25T22:38:25.025+01:00@ Crosbie,
Yes, but it isn't surprising that ...@ Crosbie,<br /><br />Yes, but it isn't surprising that a guy who makes money on piracy doesn't favor a law that would reduce it. I don't know enough about the law to comment on it. But he favors what will put money in his pocket - same as the entertainment business.Rob Levinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-23012814685194966172011-08-25T01:01:06.504+01:002011-08-25T01:01:06.504+01:00I have to wonder if the issue isn't to much th...I have to wonder if the issue isn't to much that telecom companies lobbied harder, or that the law is unfair to the entertainment industries (it's not like there's not plenty in it that favors them, and a provision that's meant to ensure that blame is placed on the proper party doesn't sound like it should be considered a hardship), but more that, regardless of what's in the law, technology is just very very good at routing around what doesn't work. It's difficult for a static law to exert complete control over a constantly changing and adapting industy.Mr. LemurBoyhttp://www.gramatu.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-42059337247777270502011-08-24T23:24:03.116+01:002011-08-24T23:24:03.116+01:00Hey Rob, have you checked out the comments to Ben&...Hey Rob, have you checked out the comments to Ben's recent item: <a href="http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/kiwi-isp-boss-says-that-three-strikes.html" rel="nofollow">Kiwi ISP boss says that three strikes is the wrong...</a>?Crosbie Fitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554471152790988479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-15524684144315633332011-08-24T21:19:40.000+01:002011-08-24T21:19:40.000+01:00Rob Levine here -
Thanks for mentioning the book...Rob Levine here - <br /><br />Thanks for mentioning the book. Since this is a specialized audience, I'd love to clarify a few things - <br /><br />I argue that, in the late '90s, *telecom* companies out-lobbied media companies and got a better deal out of the DMCA. I'm not really talking about technology companies, since at the time most of them didn't have much lobbying power. But telecom companies outspent media companies then and they still do now.<br /><br />The anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA helped Hollywood but it didn't help the music business, which never stopped releasing music in unlocked formats.<br /><br />The takedown provisions of the DMCA were designed for ISPs more than businesses like YouTube. And they were _certainly_ not designed for an era of automatic re-posters, where any file taken down from online storage lockers comes back immediately. <br /><br />Also, I hope this is OK to mention - I am now blogging myself at http://freeridethebook.wordpress.comRobert Levinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-75215686244247055802011-08-24T17:12:37.935+01:002011-08-24T17:12:37.935+01:00Another way to look at the 'bias' or lack ...Another way to look at the 'bias' or lack thereof in the DMCA is to see that the online safe harbours being decried here as balanced by other provisions designed to strengthen IP: including anti-circumvention law, RMI rules (and, in other countries, things like the creation of a right of communication to the public covering online publications). The fact that some of the provisions designed to protect IP - namely, anticircumvention law - haven't turned out to be as useful as hoped doesn't mean that the deal struck at the time was biased one way or another.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11323459337615228810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-39275125989676022812011-08-24T12:23:47.410+01:002011-08-24T12:23:47.410+01:00Online piracy, aka the people's cultural liber...Online piracy, aka the people's cultural liberty, is slowly dissolving the industries based upon constraint of cultural exchange, aka copyright in the hands of immortal publishing corporations.<br /><br />Cultural liberty cannot destroy culture. If anything, it is its constraint that causes cultural stagnation and decay.<br /><br />If you want an artist to produce art, pay them to do so.<br /><br />If you want a printer to print copies, pay them to do so.<br /><br />Queen Anne's 1709 grant of a reproduction monopoly is long overdue for abolition.<br /><br />Mankind is born with the liberty to freely share and build upon its own culture.Crosbie Fitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554471152790988479noreply@blogger.com