John McCain helped pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a gift to the RIAA at the expense of his constituents. He wasn’t alone – the act passed unanimously. <\/p>\n
Now he’s getting to enjoy the fruits of his labor. YouTube has been yanking his videos as soon as someone makes a copyright complaint, as required by the law he helped pass. He thinks they should be giving political ads more careful scrutiny before pulling them. YouTube responded with a very polite, three page letter<\/a> that pretty much said, very politely, “Get Bent, Sparky.” <\/p>\n Karma’s a bitch, baby. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John McCain helped pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a gift to the RIAA at the expense of his constituents. He wasn’t alone – the act passed unanimously. Now he’s getting to enjoy the fruits of his labor. YouTube has been yanking his videos as soon as someone makes a copyright complaint, as required by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}