Digital Millennium Copyright Act

…the United States passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which expanded owners’ control over digital forms of their creations and penalized persons who sought to evade technological shields (such as encryption) for copyrighted material. One effect of such legislation was that consumers’ opportunities to engage in activities that previously would…

law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1995 banned the development and distribution of technology designed to sidestep DRM, as well as circumventing DRM to access works that are under copyright. Since computer software can be copyrighted, the concept of DRM has expanded to products that…