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smashing | 13 years ago

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)[1]: Signed into law by President Clinton on October 28, 1998. I don't care what your politics are but the Democratic party is not the party that wants to stop the Republicans[2] from shutting down the Internet as we know it. Most people on HN probably think they do, however.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

[2] This presupposes that the Republican Party want to shut down freedom on the Internet.

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TylerE|13 years ago

For all the blather that gets thrown around about the DMCA, the safe harbor provision is what basically allows a large number of the biggest sites on the internet to operate. Do you think we would have a YouTube without it?

sampsonjs|13 years ago

Who knew the DMCA banned porn? Not me, that's for sure!

smashing|13 years ago

If the porn is copyrighted then the DMCA will allow the content owners to send a DMCA notice for each copyright infringement. That's the law and now you know it.