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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly  may get stronger. Congress sees it as a vehicle to expand police wiretapping A form of eavesdropping involving physical connection to the communications channels to breach the confidentiality of communications. For example, many poorly-secured buildings have unprotected telephone wiring closets where intruders may connect unauthorized wires to listen in on phone  authority and sniff out copyright cheats who, according to according to
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Title Annotation:Digital Millennium Copyright Act made stronger
Author:Taylor, Jeff A.
Publication:Reason
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 1, 2006
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