Topic > Essay on Digital Millennium Copyright Act - 1060
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, is a copyright law that deals directly with the protection of digital products. Companies can use the DMCA to remove unwanted illegal links to their products, this is evident on Google with certain search terms as the website warns that a link has been removed4. Most computer programs are protected by copyright, but there are some programs for which you will not run into legal problems if obtained from an unauthorized source; these programs are called abandonedware, they are generally still protected by copyright, but since they are obsolete the creators do not bother to file legal charges against those who download and share
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