Raza Panjwani @tabularaza.bsky.social

When the Copyright Office did a study of the law's anti-circumvention provisions (i.e. the notorious 17 USC § 1201 et seq.), my biggest point of frustration was that the study (and the report) all accepted the premise that the law actually did what it was supposed to do (stop piracy.)

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Raza Panjwani @tabularaza.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 14:23 UTC

(Reader, it did not.) In fact the Office conducted another study in parallel on § 512 that was premised on the assumption that piracy was, in fact, rampant. Anyway, all of this is context for this...

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