Lincoln Shorts Episode 53: Daniel Takash, Does CFAA and DMCA Make Innovators Avoid Risk
Channel: Foundation for American Innovation
Date: 2020-12-11

Daniel Takash, Regulatory Policy Fellow at Niskanen Center, talks with Sean on the history of applying the CFAA and DCMA to activities that can be considered rude rather than felonious. 

The case of Aaron Swartz downloading the JSTOR data store without permission is a infamous case of adversarial interoperability. The JSTOR terms of service allowed the MIT police to arrest him. 

Should broadly written laws inspired by the movie War Games and Napster be reduced in scope or replaced by a modern understanding of the complexities of technology and copyright?

More information on the subject: 

https://lincolnpolicy.org/

https://copyrightalliance.org/news-events/copyright-news-newsletters/dmca-hearings-2020/

https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa

https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-hacker-case-ends-with-suicide/?sh=24f2bcd057cd