Here is a more elaborate source for you: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/ustr-secret-copyright-...

> At the conference, Lehman [known as the architect of DMCA] admitted the law was the product of a deliberate end-run around the democratic process. Lehman was an advocate for several hardline proposals to criminalize digitial rights management (DRM) circumvention. Unable to sell the proposals domestically, Lehman pressed the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to propose them at the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) instead. Many have accused Lehman of using the treaty process to avoid Congress. What was Lehman’s response to those accusations at the event? “I would say that they're right.”

Nothing more to add there, it's straight from the creator of DMCA. Corrupted law in practice.