The Third Doctrinal War -- Stardock, Reiche/Ford, and Star Control

[SlyFrog]

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@SlyFrog

For those of you who hate the DMCA, I think you are looking at it from completely the wrong angle.

As someone above said, the DMCA is not really designed for copyright owners or infringers. It is designed to protect ISPs/hosts.

If you think about it more as a process that allows people to actually host third party content without being liable for infringing content (so long as they follow the process to take down such content), it makes a lot more sense.

It protects Steam, not Stardock or P&F.

That isn’t lost on us. The DMCA could have let hosts conduct more of a process in response to takedowns while providing hosts with just as much safe harbor. It’s law written or heavily influenced by media industry lobbyists.

Hosts don’t want to conduct a process. Hosts want a clear path to safe harbor.

Most real internet hosts do not want to have to engage in any process or fact finding. It adds costs and uncertainty. Let the third parties who actually are making counterclaims figure that out.