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Re: Cost of Software and Death of Innovation

I blame it on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the most innovation-crushing piece of legislation passed in my lifetime.

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The DMCA is anti-competitive. It gives copyright holders — and the technology companies that distribute their content — the legal power to create closed technology platforms and exclude competitors from interoperating with them. Worst of all, DRM technologies are clumsy and ineffective; they inconvenience legitimate users but do little to stop pirates. [1]
Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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