The McCain cam­paign is upset that their ads, which include copy­right mate­r­ial like music, keep get­ting yanked off YouTube. Specif­i­cally, the campaign

charges that “our adver­tise­ments or Web videos have been the sub­ject of DMCA take­down notices regard­ing uses that are clearly priv­i­leged under the fair use doc­trine.” The DMCA is, of course, the 1998 Dig­i­tal Mil­len­nium Copy­right Act that allows copy­right hold­ers to sub­mit take­down notices.

McCain cam­paign protests YouTube’s DMCA pol­icy | Pol­i­tics and Law — CNET News

What? The DMCA is too aggres­sively far reach­ing, and the “guilty until proven inno­cent by pay­ing for your own legal fees to fight it” take down notices end up squelch­ing fair use that should oth­er­wise have been pro­tected? Why, I’m shocked. I had no idea, apart from the fact that I’ve been com­plain­ing about this since the law was passed.

Even bet­ter, McCain sug­gested they be granted a spe­cial excep­tion for polit­i­cal speech. Sorry John. You voted for this turd, you get to live with it just like every­one else. Don’t like it, Sen­a­tor? Let’s see you show some real “lead­er­ship” and spon­sor a bill to get the more ridicu­lous parts of the DMCA repealed.

I’m not hold­ing my breath.