Russo contracts with Playlist, Inc., to create a website through which users can post and share movies, music, and other forms of digital entertainment. Russo goes to work. Before the site is online, however, Congress passes the No Online Piracy in Entertainment (NOPE) Act. The NOPE Act makes it illegal to operate a website on which copyrighted works are posted without the copyright owners’ consent.

Is Russo and Playlist’s contract discharged? Yes. The contract was discharged by operation of law. After a contract has been made, performance may become impossible in an ______________ sense. This impossibility of performance may discharge a contract. Certain situations qualify under the ______________ impossibility rules to discharge contractual obligations, such as when a change in law renders performance of a contract illegal.

Here, the purpose of the contract has been rendered illegal. The contract is discharged for ______________ impossibility on the ground of illegality.