We live in a capitalist dystopia

[CoffeeHorse]

We should trick the new congress into repealing it. They don't understand what it is or what it really does. Just tell them Disney likes it.

 

[Pocket]

I hope you have a plan to keep the safe harbor rules in place, then. Otherwise any website that happens to contain any copyrighted material could be sued out of existence without so much as a warning. That threat was literally why the internet united to defeat SOPA over a decade ago.

I'd argue it's not so much the law itself as site owners' laziness that's the problem. They automate takedowns without doing the most basic due diligence (some of which could probably also be automated) despite how simple it should be to at least verify who sent the filings. Not everyone is that terrible, but I suppose the most dangerous thing lawmakers can do is assume the best of anyone ever.

 

[Ungnome]

The safe harbor rules are one of the few parts of the DMCA I generally agree with. Issue is it's also being used to keep people from repairing vehicles and electronics they have bought, to keep you from refilling ink cartridges and more.

 

[Pocket]

That's more just... the result of patent and copyright laws existing, I think.

 

[Ungnome]

Yes and no. The DCMA has specific penalties for breaking encryption to access copyrighted work. Printer manufactures were the first ones that realized they could use that to block the ability to refill or remanufacture cartridges. Now Apple uses it to key parts to specific phones(not models, actual individual phones), John Deere was using the same technique for friggin tractor wheels until the courts carved out an exception for farm equipment. Tesla is using it on there cars as well.

 

[wonko the sane?]

And that's the story of how the right to repair was put out of its misery.