March 12, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
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Anti-Circumvention Measures
nThe DMCA made it a crime to circumvent a “technological measure that effectively controls access to a work”
n“A technological measure ‘effectively controls access to a work’ if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information…with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
nLimited exemptions for
nEncryption research
nReverse-engineering computer programs for interoperability.