What efforts have been made to control cybercrime? Have they been successful?

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Cybercrime has caused a need to create new laws and enforcement processes. Numerous organizations have been set up to provide training and support for law enforcement agents, and federal and state laws have been aimed at particular areas of high-tech crimes. To combat software piracy, people have been charged and convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which criminalizes accessing computer systems without authorization to obtain information. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it a crime to circumvent antipiracy measures built into commercial software. The US Criminal Code provides penalties for first-time illegal copyright offenders. Congress passed the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998 to make it a federal crime when anyone knowingly transfers or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of federal law. In 2004, the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act increased existing penalties for the crime of identity theft, established aggravated identity theft as a criminal offense, and established mandatory penalties for aggravated identity theft. Concerning pornography, Congress enacted the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996, which outlawed sexually related material that used or appeared to use children under 18 engaging in sexual conduct. Congress has treated computer-related crimes as distinct federal offenses since passage of the Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud Abuse Law in 1984. This act protected classified US defense and foreign relations information, financial institution and consumer reporting agency files, and access to computers operated for the government. One of the most successful federal efforts to respond to cybercrime is the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force, a partnership between the Secret Service and other public safety agencies and private corporations.