Title I provides technical means to protect content. Bypassing access control is prohibited, but one may bypass copy prevention. Manufacturers of consumer electronics, telecommunications and computer equipment are not required to design products to respond to particular technological measure. The DMCA does not change the rights relating to copyright infringement, nor the standards for vicarious and contributory infringement. There is an exemption to the circumvention prohibition for law enforcement, intelligence and other governmental activities.
Information concerning users is excluded.
There is an exemption for law enforcement, intelligence and other governmental activities. There are also limitations on liability for broadcast stations and cable systems for the removal or alteration of CMI in some situations, where there is no intent to induce, enable, facilitate or conceal an infringement. Nonprofit libraries, archives and educational institutions may get a complete remission of damages in some situations. Nonprofit libraries, archives and educational institutions are entirely exempt from criminal liability. For the first limitation, a service provider is an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user s choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received.