I think a lot of the flaws with the DMCA could be fixed by allowing an exemption for a "notice period" -- one year after you notify them that their crypto is broken, they've had enough time to fix it -- and if they haven't fixed it, they deserve what they get.

Bear

Not acceptable. DMCA is too one-sided. It is an unjust evolutionary dead-end. How would this play out : Hello Clay and Hay Brick Corp, sorry to rain on your hacienda but I've figured out a way to compromise your new eContent system. You might as well tell us, we'll have the FBI kick your ass if you tell anyone else. It was a lot of work and I'm really clever, I should get paid for my efforts. Sounds like cyber-terrorist threats to me. You'd better factor the likely scenarios into your backup policy. I suppose the only bright spot is that 99.99% of the content that is "protected" by DMCA is not worth consuming in the first place. Mike