Digital Copyright Act Harms Research
Msnbc,
Jul 31, 2001
Argument to the effect that the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) harms research by prohibiting scientists not only from studying encryption algorithms but also in preventing them from detecting spyware, insecure software and a host of other problems. The DCMA says that proprietary software must remain, in essence, a black box, but the interests of privacy and security argue otherwise. By Richard M. Smith, MSNBC, July 30, 2001.
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