thanks to the US gov’t influencing other countries, we may be killing off all sorts of innovations worldwide. There’s an extremely weak rebuttal at the end from Fritz Attaway of the MPAA who claims that we wouldn’t have DVDs without the DMCA — which is flat-out false. Once again, it appears that the entertainment industry is defending the DMCA by conveniently shifting back and forth on what they claim it’s designed to do. If it’s supposed to have prevented internet copying, then it’s failed completely.
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