The anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been extremely damaging to innovation and research in the US. There was a great lecture at defcon 17 about th

The anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been extremely damaging to innovation and research in the US. There was a great lecture at defcon 17 about the specifics of the laws regarding jailbreaking and reverse engineering (when reverse engineering actually is legal, usually only to create/implement interoperability). https://media.defcon.org/dc-17/audio/DEFCON%2017%20Hacking%20Conference%20Presentation%20By%20Fred%20Von%20Lohman%20and%20Jennifer%20Granick%20-%20Jailbreaking%20and%20the%20Law%20of%20Reversing%20-%20Audio.m4b https://media.defcon.org/dc-17/audio/DEFCON%2017%20Hacking%2...