| | | isn't it great to llive in a country where we got laws but the silly american ones don't apply. |
One of the major reasons that DMCA was passed was to implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty....
| | | Article 11 Obligations concerning Technological Measures Contracting Parties shall provide adequate legal protection and effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective technological measures that are used by authors in connection with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty or the Berne Convention and that restrict acts, in respect of their works, which are not authorized by the authors concerned or permitted by law. |
The "Contracting Parties..." include the United States of America as well as Japan, two countries that derive no small amount of money from export of "intellectual property". Don't be surprised if pressure is exerted on your own government to get similar provisions put into place ("for the good of the artists", of course). |