] 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