What It Says
Sec. 1201. Circumvention of
copyright protection systems
`(2) No person shall
manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any
technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that--
An Example
On
The application addressed in the speech bypasses
Adobe eBooks security only if you have previously purchased the eBook. Furthermore, it allows the purchaser to backup their eBook,
read the eBook on a platform other than Windows and is useful to the Blind. Adobe had
him arrested. The FBI was a customer.
Since when are people arrested for pointing
out a flaw? Free Speech allows someone to critize and/or demonstrate flaws
within corporate products. One of the
flaws was their use of ROT-13 encryption, among others.
What is ROT-13?
Plain text:
This is your protection on Adobe eBooks.
Encrypted:
Guvf vf lbhe
cebgrpgvba ba Nqbor rObbxf.
You rotate the letters in the alphabet 13
positions. 'B' the second letter becomes 'O' the fifteenth letter. Most people
use it for fun, not protection.