{"id":3723,"date":"2007-03-24T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T22:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2007\/03\/24\/dmca-architect-admits-law-hasnt-achi"},"modified":"2007-03-24T18:35:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T22:35:16","slug":"dmca-architect-admits-law-hasnt-achieved-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2007\/03\/24\/dmca-architect-admits-law-hasnt-achieved-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"DMCA Architect Says Law Hasn&#8217;t Achieved Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/content\/view\/1826\/125\/\">What refreshing honesty<\/a> &#8212; at least, that&#8217;s what this appears like based on Geist&#8217;s summary. I still haven&#8217;t been able to watch the video for myself.<br \/>\nNearly a decade after the DMCA passed, both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/DMCA\/DMCA_against_the_darknet.pdf\">empirical evidence and the insights of the Darknet paper <\/a>convincingly demonstrate that the DMCA+DRM cannot stop or even slow &#8220;Internet piracy.&#8221; Yet DMCA defenders so often ignore this, or, instead, turn it into a reason to ratchet up copyright&#8217;s restrictions through DRM mandates, harsher secondary liability rules, mandatory filtering by Internet intermediaries, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>I find this stay-the-course mentality completely confounding, and I&#8217;m glad that even Bruce Lehman appears to agree.  I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re in a &#8220;post-copyright era,&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/share\/?f=collective_lic_wp.html\">it is long past time for a better way forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What refreshing honesty &#8212; at least, that&#8217;s what this appears like based on Geist&#8217;s summary. I still haven&#8217;t been able to watch the video for myself. Nearly a decade after the DMCA passed, both empirical evidence and the insights of the Darknet paper convincingly demonstrate that the DMCA+DRM cannot stop or even slow &#8220;Internet piracy.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}