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Originally Posted by Nathan
Robbie,
tell me where exactly the DMCA law has a loophole and how you suggest you fix it. What would you change in the law to make it "good"?
I mean, actually EXPLAIN to me what change you would do in the logic of the law, how would you make what tube sites do illegal?
(someone tell Robbie to read my post)
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from my point of view..
1 - any site can upload any copyright-abuse digital thing it wants, claiming 'user submitted' (even if the site owners either do it themselves or pay others to do it for them) and profit from advertising or selling traffic. If they have to take down content - it can be immediatly re-upped.
2 - the copyright owner must FIND the infringers, and who can moniter every possible infringing site? After 'finding' the infringing site the owner must submit the DMCA, it must be in the correct format or it can be 'rejected' by the infringing site, ultimatly some sites can just 'ignore' DMCA notices with little or no penalty, and continue to profit.
DMCA is only a mechanism to remove content after discovery - a way to deal with something after the fact, it is not a tool to stop "infringement practice" and impose actual penalties on repeat offenders / sites
DMCA needs to be
replaced by Laws such as the "PROTECT IP" bills being proposed - putting the onus on the infringer - an emphasis to
not do it in the first place - instead of putting the onus on the content producer / copyright holder to have to 'FIND" the infringer.
digital product needs to be protected under the same governances as physical product - DMCA does not satisfy that.
and IMHO - 'Backups' should only be classified as such if they are private - if they can NOT be obtained publically - either by public torrent or by a public link to a 'file locker'
also IMO - digital piracy should not be looked at solely as 'theft', but also counterfieting
and giddyboy... there are TONS of torrents out there with only 1 seeder - therefore if I take a copy I am not entitled to then I may be breaking the law - but that seeder is too, even if his torrent is a legit 'backup' to him - he is feeding me the whole copy- your whole argument for ONLY going after the non-entitled downloader is bullshit.
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believe me - without free porn, just as many people will seek porn out on the Internet, and many more will pay if there is no free alternative, its not like sex is a fad - it can be milked much like any renewable resource - long term
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