alt Hacker NewsIf we removed DMCA section 1201 and the "anti-circumvention" nonsense, this would be a non-issue: people would legally reverse engineer the licensing system.
If we removed DMCA section 1201 and the "anti-circumvention" nonsense, this would be a non-issue: people would legally reverse engineer the licensing system.
Cory Doctorow suggests every other country should start doing this now. Every other country only has this law because America pressed for it, threatening tariffs or invasion if it wasn't the other country's law. Well, here we are and in 2026 this does not prevent that.