How could you know the answer to a legal question offhand? Is this FUD? The point of DMCA anti-circumvention is that it makes a crime out of things that were o

How could you know the answer to a legal question offhand? Is this FUD? The point of DMCA anti-circumvention is that it makes a crime out of things that were otherwise legal, not tack on charges to things that are illegal for other reasons. FTFA: "- It amends Section 1201 to make it clear that it is completely legal to "circumvent" if there is no copyright infringement. "- It legalizes tools and services that enable circumvention as long as they are intended for non-infringing uses. "- It changes Copyright Law to specify that unlocking cell phones is not copyright infringement." Or you could read the text the bill adds to DMCA: It is not a violation of this section to use, manu- 8 facture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise 9 traffic in any technology, product, service, device, compo- 10 nent, or part thereof that is primarily designed or pro- 11 duced for the purpose of facilitating noninfringing uses of 12 works protected under this title by circumventing a tech- 13 nological measure that effectively controls access to that 14 work, unless it is the intent of the person that uses, manu- 15 factures, imports, offers to the public, provides, or traffics 16 in the technology, product, service, device, component, or 17 part to infringe copyright or to facilitate the infringement 18 of a copyright.’’. emphasis added by me.