Saw this article and felt it was appropriate for this site.

It seems that the American Open Technology Consortium has compiled a list of the worst internet lawes ever made. It made for very interesting reading.

Quote taken from the American Open Technology Consortium
The best code in the world can be foiled by a single bug. One careless line of code can crash an entire program.

Lawrence Lessig calls laws "East Coast Code," and it only takes a few buggy laws to strangle freedom and innovation in technology. Laws like the DMCA, the Hollings Bill, and the CDA threaten to put the American technology juggernaut up on blocks.

AOTC has researched the sponsors of eight bad Internet laws and compiled a list of their most prolific campaign contributors. These laws were written and sponsored by a tiny handful of lawmakers, backed by a tiny handful of wealthy financiers. These bad coders and their backers have done more damage to computing, the Internet and freedom than all the virus authors, spammers and crackers combined.
Read more here to find out more about who and why these laws were written.

What do you all think about this? Do you agree with these laws? Do you think that they have made the internet a better place to be?

I fail to see how these laws have helped the internet... rather, completely screwed everything up!