![]() ![]() As a result, the motion picture industry maintains that it is unlawful to make a digital copy ("rip") of a DVD you own for playback on your iPod. This ban on acts of circumvention applies even where the purpose for decrypting the movie would otherwise be legitimate. So, for example, this provision makes it unlawful to defeat the encryption system used on DVD movies. The "act" prohibition, set out in section 1201(a)(1), prohibits the act of circumventing a technological measure used by copyright owners to control access to their works ("access controls"). ![]() Section 1201 contains two distinct prohibitions: a ban on acts of circumvention, and a ban on the distribution of tools and technologies used for circumvention. Second (as reflected in the details of section 1201, which go well beyond anything the WIPO treaty required 2), Congress was also responding to the concerns of copyright owners that their works would be widely pirated in the networked digital world. by the 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty. First, Congress was responding to the perceived need to implement obligations imposed on the U.S. For example, a disgruntled employer used the DMCA against a former contractor for simply connecting to the company's computer system through a virtual private network ("VPN").Ĭongress enacted the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions in response to two pressures.
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