Just finished reading this article about who enforces the DMCA. To quote the article “… we’ll see major arrests in October of people who have been illegally (and flagrantly) sharing movies. With the evidence already gathered, the game is afoot, meaning this week is too late to stop sharing those movies and expect to get away with it. This might be a good time to get a lawyer.”
“The DMCA, which was put in effect in 2000, was an attempt by the U.S. Government to bring copyright law into the cyber age. But many people — including, oddly, Mark Ishikawa — think the DMCA goes too far by making it illegal for me to even tell you how to circumvent encryption or copy protection technologies. It makes the very passing of knowledge against the law whether or not that knowledge is ever used.”
“It’s a very flawed piece of legislation,” says Ishikawa, who predicts that the government will rewrite the copyright law again “in eight or nine years” to correct the mistakes in the DMCA. But until then, the DMCA is the law of the land, and Mark Ishikawa is the Internet’s top cop. ”
