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Unjust laws

mardi 2 novembre 2021 à 17:30

The history of the DMCA and other similar unjust laws around the world.

The DMCA's DRM exceptions process, every three years, is a repeated distraction from campaigning for what we really need to do: legalize breaking DRM, and make DRM a crime instead.

See also my 1997 science fiction story, The Right To Read, which warned about the dangers of the DMCA as it was still going through Congress. As far as I can tell, it was the only science fiction story ever published in the Communications of the ACM.