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>As far as I know, no other civilized nation has anti-circumvention rules that do not consider intent

I'm pretty sure the EU has very similar law on it's books. DMCA 1201 is itself just an implementation of the WIPO Copyright Treaty, which pretty much obligates every country in the world to have a law similar to DMCA 1201. In fact, policy laundering anti-circumvention through the WTO is how the copyright maximalists overruled the public outcry against it the first time this was brought up.



Then I would beg and hope that the EFF's complaint against 1201 is successful and finds DMCA 1201 a First Amendment violation. However, I frankly find that a bit of a stretch (otherwise, why isn't copyright itself a 1st amendment violation?), and the legal system is moving slower than a snail crawling up a rock with no oral hearings yet despite being filed in 2016.




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