Technological protection measures in the courts

This article is about the similarities and differences that exist between law and engineering. It is about the nature and value of interdisciplinary research and the importance this approach will have in dealing with the problems associated with media piracy and unauthorized use of digital information. The aim of this article is to explore legal reasoning as it applies to the technological protection measures (TPMs). It was done through consideration of the content scramble system (CSS) litigation in the United States under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).