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> they’re the ones who set this up to work this way.

Who lobbied for it to work that way? I'm assuming google aren't entirely innocent here.



The DMCA is from 1998. I don’t think Larry and Sergei were taking a break from inventing google so they could lobby congress from their Stanford dorm room.


From what I remember Google fought against DMCA abuse by media companies and lost.


Google had only been founded a month before, I don't think they had vast lobbying powers yet!




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