13.03.2014 - 12:53 [ wired ]

10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA is the Law That Saved the Web

(27.10.2008) If you’re wondering whom to thank for the Web 2.0 explosion in interactive websites, consider sending a bouquet to Congress. Today’s internet is largely an outgrowth of the much-reviled Digital Millennium Copyright Act that lawmakers passed in 1998, and President Clinton signed into law exactly a decade ago Tuesday.