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Introductory paragraph to section on GPLv3§3.

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\section{GPLv3~\S3: What Hath DMCA Wrought}
\label{GPLv3s3}
% FIXME: reference the section in DMCA about this, maybe already there in
% GPLv2 section?
As discussed in \S~\ref{software-and-non-copyright} of this tutorial,
\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.
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
In the first
paragraph we have replaced the reference to the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, a United States statute, with a corresponding international legal
reference to anticircumvention laws enacted pursuant to the 1996 WIPO treaty