Z:gnu-www-ja-digital-inclusion-in-freedom--4d51bc-The publishers gained US gover/en

The publishers gained US government support for their dream of total power with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA). This law gave publishers power, in effect, to write their own copyright rules, by implementing them in the code of the authorized player software. Even reading or listening is illegal when the software is designed to block it.