[slekker]

I value them a lot, happy that the EU didnt bend down to Apple.

If it werent for the EU, the companies would get away with all sorts of shit.

Is as if people forget companies are evil by nature and will fuck you any chance they get.

[thesmtsolver2]

Meanwhile: EU pushing to snoop on private chats and US companies are pushing back.

[junto]

Where do you think that lobbying money is coming from?

[viktorcode]

I'm curios what kind of shit specifically DMCA protects you from?

[wtb04]

I think you mean DMA, not DMCA. DMCA mostly protects copyright holders. DMA is about protecting users and competitors from platform lock-in. Bending for Apple would just make that lock-in harder to challenge.

[duskwuff]

DMCA provides some rather important protection for service providers (including small-scale services like web forums, not just ISPs and web hosts) - it makes them not liable for copyright violations by their users, so long as they take down infringing content upon receipt of a DMCA notice.

But I agree, that's probably not what OP meant.

[krzyk]

Doesn't "DMCA", make, well, the DMCA notice a thing?

[duskwuff]

Precisely. What it replaced was rightsholders suing web services (like a forum or web host) as a first resort, which was a much more cumbersome and painful process for all parties.

[krzyk]

If it was more painful for the suing party, it was a good thing.

Now all it needs is send some letter to github and they take down content, no questions asked, how is that better? It is for court to decide.