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Dbca's Anti-Circumvention (Dmca)

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DMCA 's “anti-circumvention” provisions have been used to repress a wide array of legitimate activites. 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

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