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by nailer 4467 days ago
Side note: I don't consider DMCA censorship - most of the time the content is available elsewhere, it's just that someone's nicked a copy from the original author (or whoever owns the rights).

If I send a takedown notice to someone who's ripped off an article from my blog, people can still read the article on my blog.
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opendais 4467 days ago
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130730/17572624008/rotol...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-federal-judge-dont...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130814/09424724172/more-...

etc.

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chimeracoder 4467 days ago
> most of the time the content is available elsewhere,

As is often the case with censorship, what happens "most of the time" is not the concern - it's the rest.

The DMCA isn't exclusively a tool of censorship, but no effective tool of censorship is. For it to survive as an effective tool, it has to provide some value in other ways.

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dfine 4467 days ago
> but no effective tool of censorship is. For it to survive as an effective tool, it has to provide some value in other ways.

There are laws and tools built exclusively to censor web content all around the world. That's what OP is referring to as "hard, plain sight censorship." How are tools & laws like the ones used by N. Korea, Iran, and a variety of other autocratic regimes[1] not "effective tools"? What value does something like China's "Great Firewall"[2] provide other than censorship?

Seems to be a big difference between those and the DMCA.

[1] http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/what-next...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project

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