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“On July 26 the librarian of Congress announced six ways you can
legally violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Internet
found this extremely exciting. “DMCA Victory!” declared the
homepage of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “With the full
force of the U.S. government behind [you] … you might be able
to, perhaps, sue Apple when an iOS update makes your phone
inoperable,” PC Magazine daydreamed. Some reactions were even more
grandiose.

“Passed in 1998, the DMCA brought U.S. law into harmony with
various international intellectual-property treaties. The new law
not only changed the liabilities and penalties associated with
copyright violation but also went after the tools that make such
violations possible.”

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