DMCA

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a U.S. copyright law that was enacted on October 28, 1998. Among its key provisionsm, the DMCA: criminalized production and dissemination of technology which circumvented digital rights management (DRM); criminalized the act of circumventing access control regardless of actual copyright infringement; and limited the liability of service providers for copyright infringement by its users.