When will I stop ranting about the DMCA? When it's toast.

If you needed a reason to care about why and how the dreaded DMCA law in the US (and its current and future spawn in other parts of the world), you only have to read this article.

Let me try to paint you a nice analogy. Assuming that it's an infringement to plagiarize a written work, imagine if every time you wrote something - anything - a poem, a letter to your loved one, an idea for a new product or business, imagine that an author could at any time come to your house and tear up whatever you were working on, with no need to prove that your work is an actual infringement on their work. This is in essence what the DMCA allows for online. Oh - you'd fight back, eh? With what army of lawyers exactly? Get my point?