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U.S. judges blast music labels' attack on ISPs and users
Topic: Internet Civil Liberties 2:47 pm EST, Dec 21, 2003

] It is not the province of the courts, however, to rewrite
] the DMCA in order to make it fit a new and unforseen
] internet architecture, no matter how damaging that
] development has been to the music industry or threatens
] being to the motion picture and software industries.

Its been hard to find an article that really explained what was decided here. This is not really a victory. This isn't a judge saying "DMCA" subpoenas are illegal. This is a judge saying they only apply to content you are hosting on someone else's computer; Congress didn't envision P2P when they wrote the DMCA.

While in the short term this trips up the RIAA, if this decision holds it simply means that they need to go back to Congress and ask for even broader powers. Is there any doubt that after Congress has loosened the rule of law time after time after time for the benefit of their friends in the media industry that they will fail to do it again? No, they will pass another law, with more broad subpoena powers, and a lot of other nasty stuff that they'll add in while they're at it.

Stop celebrating and get ready to fight. Only if the RIAA fails to gain new powers can this be considered a victory.

U.S. judges blast music labels' attack on ISPs and users



 
 
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