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lemur2 on Fri 7th Oct 2011 02:54 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: Call me
contrarian..." Member since:  While it is true that the DMCA
does not provison the locking out or collection of license fees,
it enforce any digital rights management included on digital
media. The DMCA is a pain in the ass, but well as serveral other
things that are included in the DMCA, it does provide companies
with anti-circumvention of their encryption methods. You might
want to read up on what the DMCA actually allows you to do. That
site is what google uses when they have takedown notices for
search results. Remember it only applies to members of the USA -
its not enforable anywhere else in the world, as such and like I
said, is why the VideoLAN (who are in France - that outside of
world America) people were able to create the libs and thus why
VLC player works without a takedown notice. If the libs or VLC
was created in the USA, then it'd have been removed long ago.
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