The Campaign for Digital Rights is campaigning on two fronts.

Firstly, having recognised the damage being done in the USA by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the CfDR is seeking to inform the public of the very real dangers from similar legislation which will arise out of the European Union Copyright Directive which is due to be enacted in all EU member stated very soon.

Under the EUCD research into digital security may become a criminal offence as may copying excerpts from educational texts in the classroom. Similarly it may soon be impossible to lawfully record your favorite TV programmes to watch at a later time.

Secondly the CfDR is campaigning for all charges against Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian computer programmer who was arrested at the behest of Adobe Systems Inc. by the FBI when visiting the USA for alleged breach of the DMCA. He is facing up to 25 years in US federal prison and fines of up to $2,250,000. All this for writing a computer program in Russia where the program is entirely legal.