It is truly sad that the DMCA can be used for such stupid frivolous lawsuits. You may have heard of the new CD copy protections scheme, which could be bypassed by holding down the shift key when inserting the CD into a computer. As Dan Gilmore reports, the company is suing a Princeton grad student for publishing this information, and trying to get him in criminal trouble under the DMCA. If this purely academic behavoir is criminal, then the laws need to change.
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