What is a 17 U.S.C. 1201 (a.k.a DMCA) violation?
17 U.S.C. 1201, introduced by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, establishes legal penalties for circumventing technology that “effectively controls access” to copyrighted work , as well as manufacturing and/or making available to the public devices designed to circumvent access control mechanisms. Currently only the manufacture/distribution parts of this law are in effect – the act of circumvention itself becomes illegal in the U.S. in 2001.
