Now that HostingCon 2010 is said and done, we are starting to see what innovative ideas and hot topical discussions were had at this place where the brightest and best minds of the web hosting industry have come to gather. Unfortunately nobody has uploaded videos of that, so instead I give you professional wrestling!
Not sure who these indy wrestling stars are, so if you know – please drop in a mention via the comments.
Yeah, I am a little offended nobody asked the web hosting industry’s media rock star to do the play by play of the action – but it does look like it was a lot of fun.
Web Hosts and the DMCA
The DMCA is an abbreviation for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was signed into law in 1998. Now the big reason most people do no like this law is because it put in place questionable laws about circumnavigating copyright protection for personal backup use or the overall vagueness of the law in general. However, that really has nothing to do with web hosting – so I will not be discussing this issue today. The issue we will be talking about is the way the law made it easier for copyright holders to get stolen material off a website that doesn’t have the right to distribute it.
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