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Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Learn about millennium copyright law - also known as the DMCA. Companies such as Google's YouTube, Napster, and Grokster have tried to use the DMCA to defend themselves against lawsuits regarding copyright. The DMCA is important... [more]
Learn about millennium copyright law - also known as the DMCA. Companies such as Google's YouTube, Napster, and Grokster have tried to use the DMCA to defend themselves against lawsuits regarding copyright.
The DMCA is important legislation that allows Internet companies to operate and innovate. Without it, many of our most loved Internet properties could not exist.
p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Giant online advertising company (and Number One indexing site) Google last week dropped The Pirate Bay home page.
The action was attributed to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint.
Oh! The Horror!
But it was all a big mistake, says Gargle.
“The removal appears to be an internal error and not part [...]
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United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced that Jung Kwak, 33, also known as âMr. Viewsat,â of Oceanside, California, Phillip Allison, 35, also known as âthebroken,â and Robert Ward, 54, also known as âTDGâ and as âthedssguy,â both of Seminole, Florida, have tendered pleas of guilty to conspiring to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The three defendants were charged in a one-count indictment handed up by a federal grand jury...
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From hackinthebox.org
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has never been popular amongst free internet thinkers, largely because of its ghastly provision making subverting digital rights management a crime even if done for lawful purposes, but at least that only applies to individuals in the United States… for now. That’s why it is alarming to see a secret [...]
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From geek.com
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dreemteem writes "A judge Tuesday heard arguments in a dispute over software sales that could potentially have repercussions on the secondhand sale of virtually any copyrighted material. The suit was filed by Timothy Vernor, a seller on eBay, after Autodesk, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, asked eBay to remove some of its software products that Vernor had listed for sale there, and later to ban him from the site. Vernor had not...
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From rss.slashdot.org
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If you search for thepiratebay in Google and scroll to the bottom of the search results, you may notice that Google has said they removed search results from the page due to a complaint they received “under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.” The result they removed included the Pirate Bay’s home page.
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From searchengineland.com
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The blogosphere is abuzz over an apparently leaked document showing the United States trying to push its controversial DMCA-style notice-and-takedown process on the world. But since Threat Level already lives in the land of the DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we're more bothered by the fact that the U.S. proposal goes far beyond that 1998 law, and would require Congress to alter the DMCA in a manner even more hostile to consumers.
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