The Library of Congress approved several specific three-year exemptions to the DMCA's prohibition on breaking DRM (digital restrictions management).

However, since the exemptions do not allow distributing the means to actually do so, they may in some cases be impossible to take advantage of.

The campaigns for these exemptions are a harmful distraction which saps energy from what we really need: to repeal what the DMCA says about DRM. It should be a crime to make systems with DRM.

The article uses the ill-advised term "digital locks" to refer to digital restrictions mechanisms. See the explanation of why that term is a bad analogy, and please join me in not using it.

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When US officials prosecute thugs, thugs organize retaliation , in the form of private and even official noncooperation, as well as frame-ups.

This is why they all deserve the name of "thugs". Anyone in Albuquerque who claims the honorable title of "police officer" should validate that claim by publicly denouncing these retaliation campaigns and affirming that thugs shouldn't get away with murder.

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I think we must prohibit several of these systems.