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Wikipedia Entry on DMCA.
Update for 2012 on DMCA for Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
In this http://www.artistshousemusic.org interview, Russell Rains, a lawyer and Director of the Digital Media Management MBA Program at St. Edward's University, discusses the motivations behind the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and related copyright protection measures by the US Congress in the 1990s, as well as some of the legal issues that it was enacted to address.