The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) was a proposed US bill which would have prohibited any kind of technology which can be used to read digital content without Digital Rights Management (DRM), which prohibits copying any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner. The bill was known in early drafts as the "Security Systems and Standards Certification Act" (SSSCA), and sometimes derisively called the "Consume But Don't Try Programming Act".

Introduced by Representatives Rick Boucher and Chris Cannon, the Music Online Competition Act (MOCA) would level the playing field for non-RIAA music companies wishing to license the RIAA members catalogs, pay the artists directly for royalties, and make 30 sec samples allowable. The MOCA directly impacts some of the copyright changes brought about by extreme lobbying and distortions by the RIAA in their input to congress. The RIAA is against this bill, even though it benefits the artists and consumers, and ultimately the RIAA membership. read more

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is an extension to United States copyright law passed unanimously on May 14, 1998, which criminalizes the production and dissemination of technology that allows users to circumvent technical copy-restriction methods. Under the Act, circumvention of a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work is illegal if done with the primary intent of violating the rights of copyright holders.