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Ten Years of the DMCA, and Little to Cheer about
Cato @ Liberty —
This week is the tenth anniversary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which Bill Clinton signed into law on October 28, 1998. I was on last Friday’s Cato Daily Podcast discussing the DMCA’s detrimental effects on high tech innovation, and I’ve got a post at the Freedom to Tinker blog discussing one likely casualty of the DMCA, digital juke box software:
What we’re seeing in the video market is what the digital audio marketplace would have looked like if the recording industry had won its lawsuit against the first MP3 players. The recording industry lost that lawsuit, and entrepreneurs went on to ...
Boxee vs. the DMCA
Technology Liberation Front —
I was very interested to read Berin’s post about the Boxee, a device I had not heard about until today. I’ve been asking for years why there are no good video jukebox products on the market, so I’m always interested to see new entrants in the market.
If Wikipedia is to be believed, Boxee is a fork of the XBMC Media Center, which I first wrote about way back in 2006. The reason you may not have heard more about the XBMC Media Center is that it sits in an uncomfortable legal grey area. Thanks to the DMCA, one of its most inportant features—the ability to play and rip DVDs—is illegal. And ...
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