The DMCA has been in place for a dozen years now, and the harm done by its provisions has become quite clear. The framers of the DMCA did not take into account the unintended consequences of the law -- and even one of the main authors of the law, Bruce Lehman, now admits it was a mistake (though, as far as we know, he still hasn t apologized to James Boyle, who accurately predicted many of unintended consequences of the

DMCA, only to have Lehman threaten to "rip his throat out" and to get Boyle denied tenure). So, twelve years in, the EFF has put out a document highlighting all of the dangerous unintended consequences of the DMCA: The DMCA...(Read whole news on source site)