[kartaron]

Originally Posted by bunnyclaws

Protection of copyright material is expected of the government but the DMCA/DRM goes far beyond that. I can see where it would be illegal to distribute copyrighted material but to make it illegal to discuss methods in order to circumvent DRM technology? We are not even talking about theft here. We are talking about bypassing security methods.

To unlock the encryption you need the code key that they copyrighted as part of the software. They see it as publishing code that the company paid the programmer to develop.

[bunnyclaws]

Originally Posted by kartaron

To unlock the encryption you need the code key that they copyrighted as part of the software. They see it as publishing code that the company paid the programmer to develop.

Wrong.

There is no copyright for the key. Its just a string of numbers and is not copyrighted. They do not see it as publishing code that the company paid for the programmer to develop. The issue that the AACS has is that the key is being used to circumvent DRM technology. As I stated before it is an abuse of the DMCA to go after people for attempting to circumvent DRM technology.