May 13, 2004
Why Didn’t The Anti-Valentis Cite Felten, Too?
The public interest advocates made great arguments at yesterday’s DMCRA hearing, but, having read their testimony, I feel that one was underemphasized. Why didn’t anyone really go after the assumption that the DMCA actually reduces infringement? We know DRM benefits copyright holders in ways aside from reducing piracy, but that’s not what the Congress critters care about. They care about “theft.”
Maybe making the argument in this forum would have been too difficult. It might have been better to just make the Robert Moore argument that tech and entertainment companies can work together privately to make workable DRM, and most consumers are honest anyway. But can’t someone submit to the committee the Darknet paper at least? How come Valenti cited Felten but the other side didn’t?
Filed by Derek Slater at 3:49 pm under General news
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