New Anti-Circumvention Rulemaking Coming Soon

zurab writes "According to CNet, copyright regulators are considering a rare public comment (pdf) process on the controversial DMCA law. The article states they are mostly looking for what kind of exceptions they should make to the law." If you recall, the Librarian of Congress is required by law to conduct a review process every three years to see if there are any specific types of works which should be exempted from part of the DMCA. You can see loc.gov for some information about the current and previous rulemaking procedures, and this piece I wrote after the last rulemaking was finished, examining what did and didn't work to convince the bureaucrats.

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I don't see the problem here.

[Krapangor]

Circumvention is nothing other than an action for preparing a crime (copyright theft) and therefore should be banned. I know no country on this earth which allows the preparation of crimes, in Europe they throw you directly in prison for that. I'm surprised that this is different in the US.
And when you say that the offenders didn't do the original crime yet then you must also demand that terrorists are only captured after they blown up something and not before their crime. From a legal point of view it's all the same.