10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That “Saved the Web”
mattOzan writes "On the tenth anniversary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [PDF], Wired Magazine posits that the DMCA should be praised for catalyzing the interactive ‘2.0’ web that we enjoy today. While acknowledging the troublesome ‘anti-circumvention’ provision of the act, they claim that any harm caused by that is far outweighed by the act’s “notice-and-takedown” provision and the safe harbor that this provides to intermediary ISPs. Fritz Attaway, policy adviser for the MPAA weighed in saying ‘It’s not perfect. But it’s better than nothing.’"Read more of this story at Slashdot.