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Originally Posted by StanDaMan
All these lawsuits are just silly....
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Well, the DMCA is just silly. It was written by people who do not understand the digital world and know even less about the expectations of the average consumer concerning their ownership (or lack thereof) of the products that they think they are buying.
It is ineffective, and it will probably get worse before it gets better. In fact, most of the upcoming legislation regarding the internet (in the US ... I should be more specific) is stupid. There is a new law being debated which will make it necessary for anyone having a router to keep several years worth of records (which may be inspected at any time) to verify that no one has used that router to access sites that have illegal content.
Now they say it's to protect children, but it's really about digital piracy and the DMCA. And .... it's stupid.