Audio Home Recording Act

The Audio Home Recording Act ( AHRA ) is a 1992 addition of adopted to U.S. copyright law, which is tailored to the DAT technology; it prohibits the manufacture, importation and distribution of digital audio recording devices that do not have a SCMS or comparable system and device whose primary purpose is to handle such copy protection mechanisms to remove or disable.

The AHRA established in the U.S., a flat-rate payment system for digital audio recording devices and blank media; one of the earliest examples of a lex digitalis.

  • Source of law (United States)
  • Copy protection
  • Policy in 1992
  • Law of copyright ( United States)
Digital Audio Tape Serial Copy Management System
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