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Originally Posted by jonnydoe
"Before that, it might very well be copyrighted, but even if we know its copyrighted, that does not make it illegal content!"
This is what pisses people off Nathan. As, I have said before the whole DMCA thing was poorly written and I will add that is being abused. The spirit of the law was for ordinary people to be able to share freely on the internet to a point and gives a remedy when they share content that is copyrighted. It was not written to allow the companies themselves to upload copyrighted content and say catch me if you can. I suppose it is a question of ethics.
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God no, you COMPLETELY missed the point of DMCA! The point of DMCA is to make sure that people that offer services to 3rd parties to host or make accessible any kind of copyrightable content, can not be held accountable for what 3rd parties do!
It has NOTHING to do with "sharing freely", nothing whatsoever.
Of course it was not written to allow companies themselves to upload content.. I am not saying catch me if you can... I am saying THERE IS NOTHING TO CATCH.. we are _NOT_ uploading content ourselves UNLESS we own a license to do so... anyone claiming something else is simply lying or is making it up... so your argument does not work at all.