That's right - I remember when the DMCA got passed and there was just as much opposition. Now the DMCA is the new "sanity". Something tells me we're losing the war.
I find myself accepting that some of the things I would like to do are just going to have to be done underground.
The parts that are outrageous about the DMCA are still outrageous. Like that you can get in jail for "circumventing" DRM mechanisms. There just happens to be one part about it that works out great for websites with user generated content.
With the DMCA, the pro-copyright people have to play a game of whack a mole. It allows entire site like online manga readers to exist in the first place.
The only reason manga readers exist at all is because a reasonable alternative does not exist.
If you could download, legally, that sort of thing for a token fee, not like the $0.99 download that finally made online music scales work, the demand would drop quickly.
Why spend hours trying to torrent something when for a nominal fee you can get a legitimate copy in seconds?
I find myself accepting that some of the things I would like to do are just going to have to be done underground.