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Friday, October 17, 2008

DMCA Bites a Hand...

Regardless of who you support (or don't), this is f-u-n-n-y! It could easily happen to any of the candidates, but that it first happened to someone who voted the DMCA into law (the Senate vote was unanimous, Messrs McCain/Kyl/Levin/Abraham), well - that's just a delicious homing of roosting chickens! ;)

YouTube to McCain: You Made Your DMCA Bed, Lie in It

If you're not familiar with the DMCA, it affects you if you've ever purchased music, movies, software, MP3 players or used any type of encryption in the past 10 years. The criticism section of the Wikipedia entry gives a good short summary. That this article was published just past the 10 year anniversary of the DMCA is also a little funny. And last - that the YouTube response contains information from the EFF (http://www.eff.org/) to highlight the issues is perhaps a form of justice - given that organization fought the DMCA from being enacted in the first place.

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