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EFF Unintended Consequences: Four Years under the DMCA
Topic: Technology 4:55 pm EST, Feb  1, 2003

Since they were enacted in 1998, the “anti-circumvention” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. Congress meant to stop copyright pirates from defeating anti-piracy protections added to copyrighted works, and to ban “black box” devices intended for that purpose.[1]

In practice, the anti- circumvention provisions have been used to stifle a wide array of legitimate activities, rather than to stop copyright piracy. As a result, the DMCA has developed into a serious threat to three important public policy priorities:

EFF Unintended Consequences: Four Years under the DMCA



 
 
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