DMCA Takedowns are not for Censorship (Mirrored)
Channel: asdiokjg ghghnhg
Date: 2011-10-28

Mirrored from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2FMeNNCZaQ

The DMCA is a law that enables copyright holders to remove infringing works easily from internet locations, but it also gives those who hosted those works some rights so as not to be sued for hosting those works.

What it is not is a tool for censorship. People can reuse portions of your original work legally for criticism or parody. It's spelled out in the US copyright laws.

http://www.copyright.gov/
http://www.chillingeffects.org/

The moment you use censorship in any form to stifle criticism, the internet works to redistribute that criticism to bypass the censorship. What was originally one lone voice, becomes hundreds or thousands of voices that cannot be eliminated.

If you do not like criticism, ignore it.

If you try to censor it, it will be impossible to stop what happens next.

It's the nature of information and technology. It's time to drag yourself into the 21st century.

This video is released under a CC license. Feel free to mirror it to death!