{"id":938,"date":"2007-03-14T04:21:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=938"},"modified":"2007-03-14T04:21:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T21:21:45","slug":"youtubes-fate-rests-on-decade-old-copyright-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/youtubes-fate-rests-on-decade-old-copyright-law\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTubes fate rests on decade-old copyright law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a2\"><strong class=\"dr\">news analysis<\/strong><\/span>   <strong>Whether YouTube suffers the same fate as Napster may depend on the wording of a nearly antique law written long before video-sharing Web sites were envisioned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The law is, of course, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Debunking+DMCA+myths\/2010-12_3-950229.html\" title=\"Debunking DMCA myths -- Monday, Aug 19, 2002\">Digital Millennium Copyright Act<\/a>, or DMCA, which made its appearance in the U.S. Congress in July 1997.<\/p>\n<p>That was a year marked by the arrival of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Mac+OS+8+has+arrived\/2100-1001_3-201615.html\" title=\"Mac OS 8 has arrived -- Tuesday, Jul 22, 1997\">Apple&#8217;s Mac OS 8<\/a>, Microsoft shares <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/The+whos+who+of+tech+analysts\/2100-1023_3-204384.html\" title=\"The who's who of tech analysts -- Friday, Oct 17, 1997\">increasing in price by 150 percent<\/a> annually, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Amazon.com+IPO+skyrockets\/2100-1001_3-279781.html\" title=\"Amazon.com IPO skyrockets -- Thursday, May 15, 1997\">Amazon.com holding its initial public offering<\/a>. High-speed connections that enable video sharing were a luxury, and the Internet&#8217;s total population hovered around 19 million people.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/YouTubes+fate+rests+on+decade-old+copyright+law\/2100-1028_3-6166862.html?tag=alert\">click here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news analysis Whether YouTube suffers the same fate as Napster may depend on the wording of a nearly antique law written long before video-sharing Web sites were envisioned. The law is, of course, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, which made its appearance in the U.S. Congress in July 1997. That was a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,35,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}