From #LouisRosmann: “Here's proof the DMCA needs to be reformed or abolished.”

Repealing #DMCA1201 is another easy winning position for any non-sellout #Democrats with the courage and integrity to put the People's interests before the interests of rapacious monopolist #oligarchs. There's almost certainly not one remaining Republican candidate who's not too venal to take this stance, and it would win support of a lot of the "digital native" aged majority-white and majority-male tech enthusiast crowd, many of whom voted Republican last time.

Combine this necessary #rightToOwn legislative correction with #rightToRepair, a #privacy bill that would kill the data broker industry (which itself is a national security threat, as well as another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), protection of #E2EE (which would prevent the next #saltTyphoon, as well as being another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), and opposition to show-your-papers bills (the falsely so-called #ageVerification bills promoted by Meta to kill competition), and you already have a winning platform for this set of swing voters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0-j89LJysY

#uspol #DMCA #copyright

Hey #lawFedi:

How many ways besides libel can a false statement, whether on its own, or in combination with something else, be made to constitute civil or criminal offence? (What suffices to constitute fraud? negligent misrepresentation? breach of contract or warranty? tortuous interference? perjury? etc.…?)

Suppose a rudimentary open-source #DRM were to be implemented in web servers and web browsers (or a web-browser add-on), such that the key to the TPM comprises proof of the user's agreement to and utterance of legal statements to the effect that they're not using "generative AI" (plagiarism synthesis) to interact with the site, will not use it during that interaction, and will not allow any #genAI software to access information from it or disclose that information to any entity that would? Suppose the ToS for the site were to require that perfunctory DRM.

Would there be a way to exploit #DMCA1201 and/or the #CFAA to make it an offence (whether a crime, or a viable cause to sue) to bypass that DRM in order to interact with the website?

Maybe @lessig or #EbenMoglen (anyone know him?) could draft something, to do to AI, through inversion of intent of those laws, as #copyleft to #copyright?

@mgeist Would those laws correspond approximately to CMA §41 and to §342 of the Criminal Code?

"Huh, the law thinks they can do age verification on me? Hmphf, I'll simply just bypass it by-" no, stop it.

You're using the wrong messaging. Your ability to bypass age verification is going to be exactly the same as your ability to bypass DRM software -- that is to say, incredibly easy from a technical level, but functionally impossible when you are placed into a society where the laws of the land mean that your access to *tools* and *information* on doing such a thing are heavily restricted.

You're doing bad messaging when you act like we're going to just nerd our ways out of this.

If age verification is actually passed as the law of the land, they're not going to stop with the first most sloppy implementation of it. Once a loophole has been discovered it's going to get patched.

Hacker types might be able to circumvent the simple version of Age Verification, but as the AI-bros say, "this is the worst version of this technology that is ever going to exist". What are we going to do when Age Verification gets tied to DRM software or Secure Enclave attestation stuff?

What do we do when it's a crime to host any of the software required to circumvent these -- leading to all the mirrors not hosting the software, so it's not available from Linux official repos?

Don't act like it's going to be easy to circumvent -- they're going to make sure to it that it won't be.

#AgeVerification #DRM #DMCA1201 #freedom #linux

I'm ending TheDMCALawyer's career & I need your help - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkH3n3ZPhwY

Context:
Denver Metro Audits uses anti-piracy law against critic after copyright strike fails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGh7XTur4bI
and
This youtube lawsuit could kill yt-dlp, obs-studio, and every screen recorder you use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V099NR32fE4

#RightToRepair #FairUse #DMCA #DMCA1201 #DenverMetroAudits

This youtube lawsuit could kill yt-dlp, obs-studio, and every screen recorder you use - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V099NR32fE4

Added: Ref "Denver Metro Audits uses anti-piracy law against critic after copyright strike fails"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGh7XTur4bI
for background

#DMCA1201 #DMCA #Copyright #IntellectualProperty #Capitalism

Copyright Kills Competition

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

Pluralistic: It's not normal (14 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/

Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/google-built-its-empire-scraping-the-web-now-its-suing-to-stop-others-from-scraping-google/