Digital Millennium Copyright Act
... liability, and also dealing with “information residing, at direction of a user, on a system or network that the service provider controls or operates”, if the service provider chose something for warning of a “claimed infringement” by providing contact information to the Copyright Office and through the service provider’s website. The Copyright Office made some conditions for a service provider to choose an “agent” to get reminders of a “claimed infringement”. Also, because there is a need for having regulations in place since the beginning of the law, the Copyright Office “is not requesting public comment at this time, but will provide notice and opportunity for comment before promulgating final regulations”. The bill was first maintained by the software and entertainment industries, and scientists, librarians, and academics went against it. Some very important highlights for this act are one, it does permit the “cracking” of copyright protection devices, but, to conduct encryption research, and test computer security systems. Also, it makes it a crime to try and get around the anti-piracy measures that are built into most commercial software, and the Act bans the making, sale, or distribution of code-cracking devices used to copy software that i...