This article argues that the anti-circumvention laws of the DMCA are being used to stifle competition and not in the spirit of copyright law in the traditional sense.   EFF claims that the DMCA puts scientific research, freedom of expression, fair use, competition and innovation and computer intrusion laws into jeopardy.  The next part of the article explains how the DMCA was enacted and what congress intended the laws to be for and protect.  The third section of the paper is evidence for the claim that the DMCA hampers research.  This section looks both and legal matters, speeches and how the DMCA works with the rootkit technology put on CDs.  The section also gives many examples of how research has been threatened and stopped because of the DMCA.  There are also examples of censorship and publications that were limited and pulled from publication because the DMCA, thus showing how it prevents free speech.  The fourth section of the paper gives examples of how the DMCA violates fair use, a fundamental principle of copyright law.  This section gives examples of DVD back-up software that is banned.  It also talks about copy protected CDs, ebooks, time shifting and manipulating fonts.  All of these examples show how actions that are allowed under the fair use doctrine can no longer exist under the DMCA.  The fifth section is about how the DMCA works against innovation and competition.  The DMCA stops progress and competition instead of working for it, as copyright law was designed to do.  This section gives examples of how the DMCA gets exploited by companies in order to control their market and the after markets.  This section gives examples of how the DMCA is used to control cell phone networks, music downloading, photography software compatibility and printer toner cartridges.  The DMCA is also used by videogame companies to disallow compatibility and prevent their games from being played on other platforms.  The sixth section of the paper deals with computer intrusion laws and how they are “displaced” by the DMCA.  This section uses a court case to show that even though this exists, this is the one thing that the courts are beginning to regulate.  The paper concludes that the DMCA takes copyright too far by disallow standard practices that are legal under regular copyright law.  The threat that the DMCA will be stretched farther with time also exists.  
I will use this paper for the examples it gives of how the DMCA functions against the intentions behind copyright law.  I will also use it as a starting point and further research some of the examples it provides.  The paper gives a good, clear analysis of the major issues of the DMCA and shows how it is being used as a means of exploitation rather than as copyright law.  The DMCA violates the principles that copyright was founded on.

    This article is a guide to how DRM controls the market place.  The article shows how music services that consumers pay for give their customers less than they promise because of copy protection and the DMCA.  The guide explains the restrictions of various music services and how the services cover these up through marketing.  The first service is iTunes.  Even though you purchase the music through Apple, iTunes can change the DRM whenever they want, thus they can change and limit what you can do with music that you own.  Apple also limits first sale, backing up, remixing, player compatibility and format conversion.  Even though you own the song, the DMCA allows Apple to control the music that you purchase and restrict your uses of it.  
Microsoft’s “Play for Sure” claims that Windows Media Player’s DRM allows you to choose your music and devices.  However, there are still severe restrictions because of DRM.  There are very few players that are compatible to play with the WMA DRM format.  If you want to use a player that does not support WMA content, you have to repurchase your library of music.  Even though Microsoft markets their DRM as user friendly and non-restrictive, it is more to make DRM a norm than the truth of the matter.
RealNetworks markets their services as compatible with any MP3 playing device.  This in fact is not true, because music purchased through RealNetworks only plays on devices that support their DRM or the WMA format, thus limiting the players that the songs can be played on and restricting use of their music. RealNetworks, like iTunes, limits the number of times you can burn a song as well as the number of backup copies that can be made.  They reserve the right to modify their DRM and what it controls.  RealNetworks also does not allow reselling or remixing songs purchased through them.
Napster 2.0 advertises itself as a service that allows you to have all the music you want in anyway that you want it.  It offers three services and all charge more for uses that were once free.  Napster Unlimited allows you access to all the music you want until you stop paying the monthly fee.  You also have to pay if you want to put it on a device, which can only be one that supports WMA.  It also costs money to burn it.  The DRM restrictions can change, you can only backup a limited amount of times and burning is restricted.
    I will use this article as an example of how companies use DRM to exploit the music market place.  Each service limits the music they sell so that it can only be used with products that they license.  They also limit what a person can do with the music, even things that are traditionally acceptable under copyright law such as making back up copies and the first sale doctrine.  This article shows how the DMCA changes traditional copyright laws and allows companies to exploit their customers.