One hotly debated provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal to circumvent technical measures that were designed to protect copyrighted works in the digital era. The legislators were probably thinking of digital copy controls for music files or DVDs, but some creative companies saw in the provision a potential tool for market control.  For example, a company that made garage-door openers, unhappy with competitors marketing "universal remotes," hauled the latter into court for having "circumvented" the codes that made the garage doors work only with the manufacturer's approved remote.  Similarly, a printer maker tried to bring this portion of the Copyright Act down to [...]

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