User:Psykonautiks

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.