What is the Digital Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004?
The Digital Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (hereinafter DTPA, or the Act), extends and completes previous legislation, including the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 and the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act of 2003, to provide you, the content user, with access to an array of options for the enjoyment of multimedia content, while protecting society as a whole against losses resulting from the theft of that content by digital terrorists. Where does the DTPA apply? The DTPA itself applies only within the United States of America, but similar laws have also been enacted in the European Union, Japan, Russia, Greater China, and a number of other states. The Digital Terrorism Prevention Accord of 2005 binds all 167 signatory nations to respect and co-operatively enforce each other’s laws on the subject of digital terrorism and content theft. What are the provisions of the DTPA? The most significant provisions of the DTPA extend the range of multimedia options
