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COMPLEANNI DA SEGNARSI: il Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA) ha compiuto dieci anni. Grazie a lui, cioè grazie a una parte specifica della legge approvata da Bill Clinton, Internet ha assunto la forma che consociamo oggi. Ce lo riassume Wired.

Money quote: The DMCA was conceived a decade ago as the United States' implementation of an international copyright treaty called WIPO. Hollywood wanted the bill to protect its intellectual property from being infringed on a massive scale, and secured a still-troubling anti-circumvention rule that generally prevents consumers from bypassing copy protection schemes. But history has shown that the far-more beneficial element in the law is a provision that provides ISPs, hosting companies and interactive services near blanket immunity for the intellectual property violations of their users — a provision responsible for opening vast speech and business opportunities — realized and unrealized.

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