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DMCA Creator Admits Failure, Blames RIAA
""Bruce Lehman [the principal architect of the DMCA] says that we are entering the ?post-copyright? era for music, suggesting that a new form of patronage will emerge with support coming from industries that require music (webcasters, satellite radio)....While he says that teens have lost respect for copyright, he lays much of the blame at the feet of the recording industry for their failure to adapt to the online marketplace in the mid-1990s." Yes, unjust laws (locking-in market privilege) will do that."
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