DRM {and, or, vs.} the Law
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/acm_v46_p41.pdf
  peer-reviewed

Samuelson, Pamela
Communications of the ACM
2003

Abstract:

Copyright industries are hoping that digital rights management (DRM) technologies will prevent infringement of commercially valuable digital content, including music and movies. These industries have already persuaded legislatures in the U.S., the European Union, and other countriesto adopt broad anti-circumvention rules to protect DRM from being hacked, and courts have interpreted these statutes even more broadly than the lawmakers intended.