the.com/dmca circumvention
the felony of teaching a lock to trust you when it shouldn't.
means bypassing digital protections that guard copyrighted content, made illegal in the US even if the underlying use would otherwise be fair.
from born in 1998 as section 1201 of the digital millennium copyright act, drafted after studios and labels panicked that the internet would let anyone copy anything perfectly, forever, for free.
fair useoften irrelevant, breaking the lock is the crime itself
triennial exemptionslibrarian of congress grants narrow legal exceptions every 3 years
jailbreaking phoneslegal since 2010 after years of exemption fights
printer cartridgeslexmark sued a rival over chip circumvention in 2003
for instance
dvd jon — norwegian teen cracked css encryption in 1999, acquitted twice
aacs encryption key — 2007 hd-dvd key leak triggered mass digg protest against dmca takedowns
john deere tractors — farmers fought for right-to-repair exemption against firmware locks
chamberlain v skylink — 2004 garage-door opener case narrowed circumvention liability