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Background
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Stakeholder Forum
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Argument
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Proposed Solution
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THE FATAL FLAWS OF THE DMCA
How the DMCA has failed to stop piracy and destroyed creative freedom on the Internet
At the turn of the 21st century, piracy was running rampant across the Internet. The US government passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, or DMCA, in an attempt to stop it. Nearly twenty years later, piracy hasn't stopped - in fact, it's bigger than ever. So why isn't the DMCA working?