Introductory paragraph to section on GPLv3§3.

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\section{GPLv3~\S3: What Hath DMCA Wrought} \section{GPLv3~\S3: What Hath DMCA Wrought}
\label{GPLv3s3} \label{GPLv3s3}
% FIXME: reference the section in DMCA about this, maybe already there in As discussed in \S~\ref{software-and-non-copyright} of this tutorial,
% GPLv2 section? \href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201}{17 USC~\S1201} and
relate sections\footnote{These sections of the USC are often referred to as
the ``Digital Millennium Copyright Act'', or ``DMCA'', as that was the name
of the bill that so-modified these sections of the USC\@.} prohibits users
from circumventing technological measures that implement DRM\@. Since this
is part of copyright law and the GPL is primarily a copyright license, and
since what the DMCA calls ``circumvention'' is simply ``modifying the
software'' under the GPL, GPLv3 must disclaim such anti-circumvention
provisions are not applicable to the GPLv3'd software.
% FIXME: Wrong paragraph now. In the first
What was the second paragraph of section 3 in Draft 2, concerning so-called
anticircumvention law, has been broken up into two paragraphs. In the first
paragraph we have replaced the reference to the Digital Millennium Copyright paragraph we have replaced the reference to the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, a United States statute, with a corresponding international legal Act, a United States statute, with a corresponding international legal
reference to anticircumvention laws enacted pursuant to the 1996 WIPO treaty reference to anticircumvention laws enacted pursuant to the 1996 WIPO treaty