Jump to content

User:psykonautiks

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Hi, I'm Vishal. As part of Brad Rosen's Intro to Law and Technology course at Yale, I've written an article on United States v. LaMacchia. This was a 1994 case involving an MIT student named David LaMacchia, who allegedly facilitated mass copyright infringement as a hobby. The case was dismissed by the court, the implications of which became known as the LaMacchia Loophole: the laws concerning cybercrime and copyright infringement at the time did not apply to non-commercial infringements, which meant that a case like this, where no profit was to be made, would be dismissed. This ultimately led to the NET Act, which closed this loophole.