Graham Coles

UK

Software Engineer

History repeats itself again.

I seem to recall when the American DMCA law was introduced they claimed it would only be used against criminals.

One of its first uses was to threaten a professor at Princeton to prevent him giving a research presentation, and a string of similar threats have been used to restrict security research ever since.

I can't see this law doing any good. Criminals will simply share the tools among themselves while future IT security experts are either unable or unwilling to obtain the tools to do their job.

Another example of the law shooting itself in the foot by producing laws that criminalize everybody.