#dmca1201 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dmca1201, aggregated by home.social.
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From #LouisRosmann: “Here's proof the DMCA needs to be reformed or abolished.”
Repealing #DMCA1201 is another easy winning position for any non-sellout #Democrats with the courage and integrity to put the People's interests before the interests of rapacious monopolist #oligarchs. There's almost certainly not one remaining Republican candidate who's not too venal to take this stance, and it would win support of a lot of the "digital native" aged majority-white and majority-male tech enthusiast crowd, many of whom voted Republican last time, without alienating any other significant voting demographic (where technofeudal broligarchs, numbering fewer than the "likes" on this one video, count as insignificant).
Combine this necessary #rightToOwn legislative correction with #rightToRepair, a #privacy bill that would kill the data broker industry (which itself is a national security threat, as well as another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), protection of #E2EE (which would prevent the next #saltTyphoon, as well as being another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), and opposition to show-your-papers bills (the falsely so-called #ageVerification bills promoted by Meta to kill competition), and you already have a winning platform for this set of swing voters.
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From #LouisRosmann: “Here's proof the DMCA needs to be reformed or abolished.”
Repealing #DMCA1201 is another easy winning position for any non-sellout #Democrats with the courage and integrity to put the People's interests before the interests of rapacious monopolist #oligarchs. There's almost certainly not one remaining Republican candidate who's not too venal to take this stance, and it would win support of a lot of the "digital native" aged majority-white and majority-male tech enthusiast crowd, many of whom voted Republican last time, without alienating any other significant voting demographic (where technofeudal broligarchs, numbering fewer than the "likes" on this one video, count as insignificant).
Combine this necessary #rightToOwn legislative correction with #rightToRepair, a #privacy bill that would kill the data broker industry (which itself is a national security threat, as well as another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), protection of #E2EE (which would prevent the next #saltTyphoon, as well as being another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), and opposition to show-your-papers bills (the falsely so-called #ageVerification bills promoted by Meta to kill competition), and you already have a winning platform for this set of swing voters.
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From #LouisRosmann: “Here's proof the DMCA needs to be reformed or abolished.”
Repealing #DMCA1201 is another easy winning position for any non-sellout #Democrats with the courage and integrity to put the People's interests before the interests of rapacious monopolist #oligarchs. There's almost certainly not one remaining Republican candidate who's not too venal to take this stance, and it would win support of a lot of the "digital native" aged majority-white and majority-male tech enthusiast crowd, many of whom voted Republican last time, without alienating any other significant voting demographic (where technofeudal broligarchs, numbering fewer than the "likes" on this one video, count as insignificant).
Combine this necessary #rightToOwn legislative correction with #rightToRepair, a #privacy bill that would kill the data broker industry (which itself is a national security threat, as well as another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), protection of #E2EE (which would prevent the next #saltTyphoon, as well as being another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), and opposition to show-your-papers bills (the falsely so-called #ageVerification bills promoted by Meta to kill competition), and you already have a winning platform for this set of swing voters.
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From #LouisRosmann: “Here's proof the DMCA needs to be reformed or abolished.”
Repealing #DMCA1201 is another easy winning position for any non-sellout #Democrats with the courage and integrity to put the People's interests before the interests of rapacious monopolist #oligarchs. There's almost certainly not one remaining Republican candidate who's not too venal to take this stance, and it would win support of a lot of the "digital native" aged majority-white and majority-male tech enthusiast crowd, many of whom voted Republican last time, without alienating any other significant voting demographic (where technofeudal broligarchs, numbering fewer than the "likes" on this one video, count as insignificant).
Combine this necessary #rightToOwn legislative correction with #rightToRepair, a #privacy bill that would kill the data broker industry (which itself is a national security threat, as well as another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), protection of #E2EE (which would prevent the next #saltTyphoon, as well as being another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), and opposition to show-your-papers bills (the falsely so-called #ageVerification bills promoted by Meta to kill competition), and you already have a winning platform for this set of swing voters.
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From #LouisRosmann: “Here's proof the DMCA needs to be reformed or abolished.”
Repealing #DMCA1201 is another easy winning position for any non-sellout #Democrats with the courage and integrity to put the People's interests before the interests of rapacious monopolist #oligarchs. There's almost certainly not one remaining Republican candidate who's not too venal to take this stance, and it would win support of a lot of the "digital native" aged majority-white and majority-male tech enthusiast crowd, many of whom voted Republican last time, without alienating any other significant voting demographic (where technofeudal broligarchs, numbering fewer than the "likes" on this one video, count as insignificant).
Combine this necessary #rightToOwn legislative correction with #rightToRepair, a #privacy bill that would kill the data broker industry (which itself is a national security threat, as well as another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), protection of #E2EE (which would prevent the next #saltTyphoon, as well as being another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), and opposition to show-your-papers bills (the falsely so-called #ageVerification bills promoted by Meta to kill competition), and you already have a winning platform for this set of swing voters.
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/
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Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google
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Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Pluralistic: O(N^2) nationalism (26 Nov 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/26/difficult-multipolarism/
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Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet
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Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet
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CW: Long thread/7
Shredding parts and cooking up bogus trademark claims is just for starters, though. For Apple, the true anti-repair innovation comes from the most pernicious US tech law: #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct (#DMCA).
#DMCA1201 is an #AntiCircumvention law. It bans the distribution of any tool that bypasses "an effective means of access control."
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CW: Long thread/7
Shredding parts and cooking up bogus trademark claims is just for starters, though. For Apple, the true anti-repair innovation comes from the most pernicious US tech law: #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct (#DMCA).
#DMCA1201 is an #AntiCircumvention law. It bans the distribution of any tool that bypasses "an effective means of access control."
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CW: Long thread/3
Like all DRM, VIN locks are covered by Section 1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct (#DMCA), a 1998 law that criminalizes distributing tools to bypass "access controls," even if you do so for a lawful purpose (say, to fix your own tractor using a part you paid for). Violations of #DMCA1201 carry a penalty of 5 years in prison and a $500k fine - for a first offense.
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