Tell the Copyright Office: Copyright Law Shouldn't Punish Research and Repair

Posted by BernardSwiss on Oct 13, 2016 12:33 PM EDT
EFF; By Corynne McSherry
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In enacting the “anti-circumvention” provisions of the DMCA, Congress ostensibly intended to stop copyright “pirates” from defeating DRM and other content access or copy restrictions on copyrighted works and to ban the “black box” devices intended for that purpose. In practice, the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions haven’t had much impact on unauthorized sharing of copyrighted content. Instead, they’ve hampered lawful creativity, innovation, competition, security, and privacy.

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