from Hacker News

US Congress Starts Review on Possible Modernization of the DMCA

by rahuldottech on 2/16/20, 5:23 PM with 5 comments

• by superkuh on 2/16/20, 6:53 PM

  Modernization means removing safe harbor provisions, the only part of the DMCA worth anything.

• by skunkworker on 2/16/20, 7:07 PM

  I doubt it will happen but I wish the consequences of filing false DMCA notices would be much more severe. Like Getty sending notices after images in the public domain, renditions of sheet music in the public domain on YouTube etc.

• by dannyw on 2/16/20, 7:00 PM

  Whatever they change will not be for the better. The main thing that needs to be fixed with DMCA is its limits on reverse engineering that require constantly renewed exceptions from Library of Congress. Eg for jailbreaking.

  FWIW, people might hate copyright in general, but as someone who had my own work stolen, I’m glad it exists.

• by mnm1 on 2/16/20, 7:02 PM

  Not a single suggestion in this article would improve the current dmca situation and most, if not all, would make things worse. Hopefully bipartisan squabbling will kill any proposed changes and leave this awful law as it is rather than making it even worse.