On: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit

[hedora]

Google’s the primary beneficiary of the DMCA, and also the US’s criminally lax privacy laws.

Sounds like corporate welfare to me.

[ClumsyPilot → hedora]

The way I understood that sentence, was that Google is providing Corporate Welfare to 130,000+ of it's employees.

[baq → ClumsyPilot]

A better term is adult daycare.

[IntelMiner → hedora]

I'd say Disney is the primary beneficiary of the DMCA, and copyright law in general

But that's more just a condemnation on how sickeningly large American media empires are now

[hedora → IntelMiner]

The DMCA lets google crowdsource “upload disney’s catalog to youtube, slap ads on them, and profit while cementing our monopoly”. It also let’s them arbitrarily hobble open source web browsers and android forks with DRM.

Disney was much better off under the old regime, where they could have collected statutory damages from Google each time a movie was uploaded to YouTube.