Slashdot | @Home Cuts Newsgroups Due to DMCA Complaints

Steve Schear schear at lvcm.com
Fri Jun 22 15:02:35 PDT 2001


At 12:03 PM 6/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>At 07:52 AM 6/22/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote:
>>At 08:36 PM 6/21/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>> >http://slashdot.org/yro/01/06/22/006203.shtml
>>
>>                 Due to violations of the DMCA (Digital
>>           Millennium Copyright Act) the Usenet newsgroups
>>           listed below are being discontinued from the
>>           Excite at Home news feed.
>
>I don't understand how DMCA comes into play for content already ripped by 
>someone else.

Before anyone says its because all DVD content, even from Hollywood, is 
assumed to be protected that's not true.

steve





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