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What do you believe was the best era of the Internet and why?
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The infancy of YouTube and Twitch. Everyone made content for fun, pretty much no one was nude or in a hot tub, monetization didn't censor everything.
It was nice ๐๐
Early YouTube and twitch, early reddit, pre-instagram. That was a good time.
Gah, I miss those days. I had a personal video on YouTube from the early days. Something or another flagged it โ probably the audio I used for the cheap โcreditsโ I put in โ and the video went away.
More recently, grandmas birthday video. It got taken down a year later, likely because I had short, edited clips of Peanuts included. ๐
Oh, and you mean Justin.tv.
Best era of the Internet was before the DMCA. At the time it passed I knew it would kill a lot of my favorite things about the Internet and I sadly wasn't wrong
Whatโs DMCA?
Digital millennium copyright act. It effectively moved the burden of proof for copyright infringement from the copyright owner to the accused, short-circuiting the existing IP laws, among other things.
It is where much of the drama around copyright online stems from. It's used as a way to quickly stifle anything someone posts that's something you don't like.
It made circumventing DRM itself illegal, even if you're not breaking copyright by doing so (even if it's for your own research or backups).