The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was introduced to the House of Representatives on July 29, 1997 by Rep. Howard Coble. The law was written in accordance with the WIPO Copyright Treaty, or WCT. It made sure that computers, TVs, etc. automatically put a "DRM" on all incoming media. This is similar to the encryption Apple puts on all songs imported into iTunes.
According to the DMCA, it is legal to sell you "uncopyable digital material". But this doesn't work, because as Ed Felton puts it: "[It's like] handing out water that isn't wet."
The DMCA is still in affect, but is ineffective, seeing as we have a billion and a half (that's a guesstimate) hackers all over the world today.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR:
According to the DMCA, it is legal to sell you "uncopyable digital material". But this doesn't work, because as Ed Felton puts it: "[It's like] handing out water that isn't wet."
The DMCA is still in affect, but is ineffective, seeing as we have a billion and a half (that's a guesstimate) hackers all over the world today.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR:
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