Resumen
This article focuses on the need for revision of the anticircumvention regulations. The U.S. was an integral part of the struggle over the antcircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) enacted in October 1998. The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent access controls used by copyright owners to protect their works as well as to develop and distribute circumvention technologies. It is concluded that flaws in the DMCA's anticircumvention provisions do not derive from the treaty but rather from the bad judgment of the administration and the major copyright industry groups that urged adoption of these overbroad rules. The DMCA's anticircumvention rules envision an information society very different from the one that are currently inhabited. People are used to making a wide range of uses of copyrighted works without seeking the copyright owner's permission. It is unclear how well they will react to a radical shift in the market for information products that the encryption-enraptured futurists are trying to build.