Mary Fisher wrote:

I've never seen it before, what does it mean?

Its a raft of US legislation that makes it illegal to try and circumvent
any technical measure used to protect copyright. So for example reverse
engineering the protection mechanism that protects a digital rights
managed audio file so that you can download it onto your MP3 play would
in itself become an offence. With it is a large collection of legal
mechanisms that allow for issuing takedown notices to suppress
supposedly illegally hosted content. Needless to say it is widly abused
as a way of stifling anything that a corporation or copyright holder
wants to suppress without any real need for evidence.

We now have something similar in the EU copyright directive.

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Cheers,

John.

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