Hector Postigo's The Digital Rights Movement: The role of technology in subverting digital copyright presents a commonly raised debate concerning the scope of copyright and the narrowing of fair use; it is a story of control and contest over cultural production. Postigo concentrates his critique of US copyright law through the prism of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) 1998. This legislation introduced punitive measures for transgressing systems for digital right management (DRM) and access control and pitted rights holders against consumers, hackers and scholars mobilized via various social movement organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and ad hoc online communities founded around various causes. There is an ongoing contest between copyright and fair use, between content producers and content consumers, but as Postigo points out, consumption trends have changed due to digital technologies, and 'Technology speaks a certain kind of language about cultural production - a participatory ethos and its politics' (p. 177).
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