Internet Piracy Questions and Answers
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Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act affect everyday life?
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) only affects everyday life for a few people. Whether it affects a given person depends on what that person would like to be able to do. The main impact...
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What is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)?
As with all important laws, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does many things. Overall, the point of the act is to prevent internet piracy. The law has in many ways been ineffective as...
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Why was the entire Wikipedia site turned off on January 18th, 2012?
Wikipedia turned to a self-inflicted blackout on January 18, 2012, to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by Congress. Essentially, SOPA would have required search engines based in the United...