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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Ok, that article confused me as DMCA has nothing to do with DRM. It protects ALL copyrighted material from being plagiarized. DRM does not matter.
Heck I could personally send DMCA letters to a few bloggers or websites. They swiped a recipe from Food.com.
It does not have drm.
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Do you mind double-checking what the DMCA is?
Last I checked, the DMCA was a set of laws that among other things, forbids circumvention of "technical protection methods", as well as instituting the Safe Harbor guidelines for online services and ISPs.
Under the Safe Harbor provision,
one facet of the DMCA, takedown letters can be issued -- this should not be an automatic proof that the law does not serve any other purpose.
It has NEVER "protected copyrighted material from being plagiarized" -- we already have laws that do that, they're called "copyright".
I could be wrong, though... maybe they (gov't) have changed it while I wasn't looking...