4 Comments for Digital Millenium Copyright Act?

• 1. pepper  |  July 17th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

  To protect those who’s creations would be freely traded by people not wishing to pay for them.

• 2. Wyoming Rider  |  July 17th, 2009 at 11:56 pm

  It was originally designed to assist in the protection of computer-related intellectual works.
  However, it seems to be more of a farce on how to generate the most constitutional violations and create the most number of court actions.
  It was not well thought out before being passed.

• 3. longhaired freaky person  |  July 18th, 2009 at 5:23 am

  It’s to protect large corporations that own vast parts of our culture.
  Otherwise, we would use the internet to share our culture freely.

• 4. Rick  |  July 18th, 2009 at 6:01 am

  It’s to protect everyone’s intellectual property, not just big corporations. And don’t forget that most big corporations are owned by middle-class people who have their stock in their IRA for their retirement.
  I have a medical condition that prevents me from working outside my home. I earn my entire meager living by writing articles and building websites.
  At least 4 or 5 times a year I find someone who has simply duplicated one of my articles or sites at their own url. I’m the one who did the research. I’m the one who learned how to do all of this. And these jerks think that everything online should be free regardless of the fact that the stuff wouldn’t even be available if it wasn’t for we who produce it. Then I have to spend my time and money talking to lawyers and web hosts instead of developing more articles/websites.
  If you spent millions of dollars producing a movie and then P2P sites just provided it to the public for nothing, would you be ok with that? What about the actors, costume makers, the extras, the guy who holds the microphone, people who have retirement dollars invested in Paramount stock, etc. Should they all lose out because you thieves think that you’re entitled to other people’s work for nothing?
  If you wrote a song that went to #1 on the charts, would you still think that it’s ok for people to give it away for free or would you see things a bit differently then?
  You do realize that if studios, record producers, webmasters, and all of their employees can’t earn a living because of thievery that there will eventually be no new movies, hit singles, television series, music videos, or websites.

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