Free Speech Threatened Rights of Corporations Above the Rights of Individuals
... Like Thoreau, the citizens of the United States today are faced with unjust laws that favor the rights of businesses over the rights of citizens. ... Unfortunately, this law is very poorly written, and is now regularly used by corporations to restrain free speech activity by limiting the concessions of the copyright law. The DMCA is an unjust law because it allows corporations to disregard the public’s fair use concessions, which cannot be tolerated and can only be amended by transgressing the law immediately. ... The anti-circumvention provision is what corporations use to limit our free speech activity. ... The people are within their rights to download a copy a song for personal use. ... Unlike the government in Thoreau’s time, our government very much respected the rights of individuals.