The Mickey Mouse curve, if you're wanting to k now about that blame. Though realistically that's only part of it. DMCA largely came about to fight piracy online. Downloading music (before digital downloads were even a thing), ripping CDs and DVDs, etc. That's also why DRM.
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Replying to @ladyunicornejg @EliteSkeptiC and
Back when...this kind of thing made enough sense at a glance if you had any digital library, the joke needed no justification or explanation: http://mafiaa.org/press_room/
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Replying to @ladyunicornejg @EliteSkeptiC and
RIAA eventually removed DRM from CDs and even a lot of mainstream music is available DRM-free and legal, without serious fears of being prosecuted for a modern version of the mixtape.
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Replying to @ladyunicornejg @EliteSkeptiC and
MPAA did not stop so easily. DVDs kept being region locked with added DRM, blue ray's no better, from my understanding. You can get legal digital copies of movies these days, but those are almost always locked down as well, and you could still find yourself in trouble if you
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Replying to @ladyunicornejg @EliteSkeptiC and
try to create your own from a DVD you legally purchased, even if you're only doing so for easier use for yourself. Hell, even if it's archival only (a protected exemption), bypassing the DRM, and creating or sharing tools for that purpose...still in there.
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Replying to @ladyunicornejg @EliteSkeptiC and
Pretty sure it's WHY that's in there. To protect their precious videos from the evil pirates online...even the ones who aren't sharing it. But fortunately, that's being somewhat handled in court, too. Once it started impacting modification and repair of most hardware...
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Replying to @ladyunicornejg @EliteSkeptiC and
Hell, even somewhat over "tech" (IT) hardware. Jailbreaking an iPhone? You're bypassing DRM. Rooting your android? Possibly the same (though older versions are released under open source licenses. But when your coffee maker restricts your pod choice and you can't fix a tractor
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Replying to @ladyunicornejg @EliteSkeptiC and
Well...that started upsetting more than tinkerers, modders, etc.
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Replying to @ladyunicornejg @BrianSlimdog77 and
Yeah see I don't like anything that restricts people on a personal level.
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Replying to @EliteSkeptiC @BrianSlimdog77 and
Unfortunately, that's going to be a lot if not most things, especially with the weird situation that is the internet and it's various content creators. I haven't met many who think of themselves as even a business. Some, but not most. But they're definitely not "personal use"
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Just posting on YouTube, even well before being able to monetize, can cross the threshold into "commercial use" of whatever.
Not to even get into Citizens United and how corporations are "people"
I'm not sure we even very well know where the lines are there anymore.
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