Vote to amend the DMCA and help music apps like Grooveshark stay alive

Re:Vote to amend the DMCA and help music apps like Groovesha... by omouse on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @10:22PM (#2069709)

The DMCA should be gotten rid of completely. Piece of shit Act is abused like nobody's business.

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Re:Vote to amend the DMCA and help music apps like Groovesha... by steveklabnik on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @11:12PM (#2069851)

It _would_ be nice if we could keep something like the Safe Harbor Provision around in some form, though. Don't get me wrong, I hate the DMCA too, but I do like that provision.

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Re:Vote to amend the DMCA and help music apps like Groovesha... by cookiecaper on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @01:19AM (#2070145)

The DMCA does some bad things, but without its safe harbor, I think it's doubtful YouTube or other early media-oriented user-generated content startups would have been able to exist; as far as I know, they would have only had fair use, and many infringing articles were obviously not fair use. IANAL.

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