Don't forget that the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision also threatens our cultural history and heritage by preventing archivists and librarians from making legal backups of DRM-protected works.
The anti-circumvention section needs to go. DRM can still exist; it just won't be illegal to break it. Works will still be protected by copyright. There's no reason other than greed and extreme lust for control to legally force digital locks upon the world.
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Hey guys, awesome AMA.
Don't forget that the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision also threatens our cultural history and heritage by preventing archivists and librarians from making legal backups of DRM-protected works.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/03/the-copyright-rule-we-need-to-repeal-if-we-want-to-preserve-our-cultural-heritage/274049/
The anti-circumvention section needs to go. DRM can still exist; it just won't be illegal to break it. Works will still be protected by copyright. There's no reason other than greed and extreme lust for control to legally force digital locks upon the world.
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