Copyright and Anti-Circumvention: Growing Pains in a Digital Millennium

Halfway through the first year of the new millennium – or halfway through the last year of the old one, depending on whom you ask – commentators and observers of all stripes seem to have settled conclusively that we are standing at the dawn of the ‘information age’. Articles reflecting on the nature of new technology in this so-called ‘digital millennium’ are becoming as ubiquitous as the phenomena they describe. The need to respond to perceived challenges to established law, to adapt and take new approaches to satisfy the demands of a society based on information technology, are frequently deliberated.