The DMCA is such an abusable piece of law. It allows places like Youtube or Amazon to operate with volumes of user-generated content that would be impossible to pre-vet in real time, at the cost...
The DMCA is such an abusable piece of law. It allows places like Youtube or Amazon to operate with volumes of user-generated content that would be impossible to pre-vet in real time, at the cost of allowing any joker with an e-mail address to claim authorship of anything for (in practice) any reason, and in most cases, it will be immediately removed or handed over to the person making a claim without even a perfunctory review of its validity. At absolute best, you raise such a big stink about it that you get your intellectual property back, with zero compensation for revenue or reputation lost in the meantime. There has got to be a better way of doing this.
It's not even an international law, it's an American law that just happens to apply to most of the biggest websites in the world, since they are run by US corporations, and so the entire world has to deal with its general shittiness.
The DMCA is such an abusable piece of law. It allows places like Youtube or Amazon to operate with volumes of user-generated content that would be impossible to pre-vet in real time, at the cost of allowing any joker with an e-mail address to claim authorship of anything for (in practice) any reason, and in most cases, it will be immediately removed or handed over to the person making a claim without even a perfunctory review of its validity. At absolute best, you raise such a big stink about it that you get your intellectual property back, with zero compensation for revenue or reputation lost in the meantime. There has got to be a better way of doing this.
It's not even an international law, it's an American law that just happens to apply to most of the biggest websites in the world, since they are run by US corporations, and so the entire world has to deal with its general shittiness.