What Impact Did Dmca Have On The Digital World

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

1) What impact did DMCA have on the digital world? Was it generally positive or negative?

2) How does DMCA affect the regular users?

3) What caused the establishment of DMCA, main point and ideas of DMCA?

The purpose and influence of DMCA.
Authors: Sakharov Vladimir, Sandeep Pahadi, Dubovik Uladzislau

Introduction

In this report we wanted to find out what caused the introduction of DMCA, what did the people behind it want to achieve, how it affected the Internet and its users and what it came to be today.

Methodology of the Study

Research Methodology refers to the various sequential steps adopted by researcher in studying a

Research Design: Research design is a plan, structure and strategy of investigation so as to obtain answers to the research questions. This report is designed to find out the impact of DMCA on the digital world, how it is affecting the regular user and what was the reason for the implementation of DMCA rules. Sakharov Vladimir was collecting the information about the impact that DMCA has on the digital world, Sandeep Pahadi about the DMCA affecting the regular user and Dubovik Uladzislau about the reasons for the establishment of

Numerous reports show that DMCA has been used to stifle free speech and scientific research. Banning all of the circumvention acts gives corporations the power to eliminate the public's fair use rights. The movie industry’s use of encryption on DVDs has crippled consumers’ ability to make personal-use copies of movies they have purchased. Youtube's 3 strike policy allows the owner of the content to ban channels that critisize their product. Section 1201 of DMCA has been used by a number of copyright owners to stifle free spech in a number of cases like the lawsuit against 2600 magazine, threats against Princeton Professor Edward Felten’s team of researchers or the prosecuiton of Dmitry Sklyarov in