DMCA

The DMCA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, has created a lot of unintended problems. Since its inception in 1998, the provisions have failed to meet the visions Congress once had. "In practice, the anti-circumvention provisions have been used to stifle a wide array of legitimate activities, rather than to stop copyright infringement. As a result, the DMCA has developed into a serious threat to several important public policy priorities:" (EEF.org). Some of these consequences include ceasing free expression, innovation, and scientific research.
I think that the DMCA needs to be changed. In 1998 congress enacted the DMCA in order to stop illegitimate internet activity. It certainly has worked, but to what extent. They need to find a way to balance out what they view as illegal. A new set of rules should be put in place to allow such free expression and innovation to once again be allow.

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Difference between Search Engines

1. uss yorktown nt

All of the search engines provided essentially the same results. The common links were wired.com and wikipedia.com. A battleship that used windows. Windows crashed, subsequently leaving the ship dead in the water.
Baidu.com has links referencing an aircraft carrier.

2. google china censorship

Links related to the censorship ban in China. Google is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service. This may ultimately lead to the shut down of google.cn. I was not able to find as many articles related to this topic on bing.com. Baidu was the most helpful search engine for this query. It had a ton of links about why google was ending the censorship ban.

3. Tiananmen Square

Google and Bing.com had a lot of links associated with the protests of 1989. However, I was unable to find links to the protests on Baidu.com or google.cn. This shows that there is noticeable censorship being implemented by the Chinese government. It was really interesting to see how the query provided no information on the protests

4. Taiwan independence

Baidu.com had links that doomed the independence movement to fail. While the other search engines did not. Other than that there was very little variance.