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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @01:40AM
from the not-perfect-the-understatement-of-the-year dept.

mattOzan writes "On the tenth anniversary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [PDF], Wired Magazine posits that the DMCA should be praised for catalyzing the interactive '2.0' Web that we enjoy today. While acknowledging the troublesome 'anti-circumvention' provision of the act, they claim that any harm caused by that is far outweighed by the act's "notice-and-takedown" provision and the safe harbor that this provides to intermediary ISPs. Fritz Attaway, policy adviser for the MPAA weighed in saying 'It's not perfect. But it's better than nothing.'"

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DMCA caused web 2.0? (Score:4, Funny)

by Tubal-Cain (1289912) writes: on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @02:02AM (#25537841) Journal

Assisting web 2.0 is almost as heinous of a crime as assisting the MAFIAA.

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Bovine Fecal Matter (Score:5, Funny)

by DustoneGT (969310) writes: on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @02:28AM (#25538011)

What's next, praise for the security provided by the PATRIOT Act? This wired article wreaks of bovine excrement.

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Re:Safe Harbor made innovation work (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @03:46AM (#25538295)

What do you have against anonymous speech?
Absolutely nothing!

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Re:Safe Harbor made innovation work (Score:2, Funny)

by YouWantFriesWithThat (1123591) writes: on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @01:27PM (#25543811)

that's...[buffering]...not true!

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